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Originally Posted by jseal

As you alluded in your ref to the Founding Fathers, if we compare the relationship the Citizen has to the State today, and that of 1912, I think the Citizen has a much larger range of personal freedom available now than then.

I'm not as certain of that. There is now a myriad of little defences of liberty, of which the Miranda Decision was one of the early stars. However . .

There are also a mountain of "thou shalt nots" snuck in by all levels of bureaucracy which snag at our shins and drag at our heels. Many of these have never seen the inside of a legislature of greater staure than the local city council.