Show r. The of It is hardly necessary for us to that we prefer the ment of the Jewish Rabbi in this issue to the ment of the Deseret News which we also print in contention of the News that liquor interests that the law is bound to On the we believe that-all have even that law bound people think that Jews should have few rights be- r other Mormons should have only a few The despotic nations regard all aliens Having the But the view of all 5 British and American statesmen for over one hundred years has been that all men have before the law certain inalienable rights of which no statute or law can rightfully deprive them because they are guaranteed under the Here are some of the rights of man in relation to liberty and condensed from the writings of some of the best political scientists of The constitution of the or of the is the direct and imperative expression of the will of the Legislatures and courts are under the and are created by it or by its This paramount written the constitution of the can only be amended by a vote of three-fourths of all the states of the The constitutions of the several states may be amended in such manner as is provided in the constitutions The powers of congress are fixed by the as it is interpreted by the supreme If the power to legislate on a subject is conceded to the supreme court wil not inquire into the of a or the led or the manner in which it was Jt is only the law a of the constitution that the court by its judgment pronounces it null Courts of justice should bring every law to the test of the first the United States and then of their own state as' the paramount and supreme to which every power must It is a maxim that legislative enactment ought to be prospective and not A retroactive statute would partake in its character of the mischief of an ex post facto as to all cases of crimes and and jn cases relating to contracts or property it would militate against every sound A retrospective statute affecting and changing vested rights Is general-Jy considered as on unconstitutional and consequently The right of personal liberty is Te cured that provision of the constitution which declares that shall be r of life liberty or property due process of meaning of this Webster said in his speech in the Dartmouth College every citizen shall hold his property and immunities under the protection of general rules which govern This term liberty as has beien a negative term denoting the sence of But it is more it the right to n to act individually or with to labor for one's without molestation from it means the right to the full of one's faculties in lawful Civil which is here is liberty restrained so as is necessary for the common The right of property is secured by the fifth the constitution of the United States which provides person shall be deprived of liberty or property without due process of and by the fourteenth which provides state shall or enforce any laws which shell abridge the privileges' or immunities of citizens of the United nor shall state any person of liberty property due process nor deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal pro-j of the The right of property is the right of Law writers have ferent theories of the origin this Blackstone earth and all things therein were the general property mankind from the immediate of the By the- law of nature he first began to use it i acquired therein a kind of transient property that lasted as long as he was using it and no or to speak with greater the right of possession con-i tinned for the same only the act of possession Thu f the ground was in common andi no part was the permanent prop-i erty of any man in whoever was in the of any determined spot of for or or the for the time a sort of own-v from which it would have been unjust and contrary to of have driven him by but the instant that he quitted the use or occupancy of another might seize it without |