The foundation on which all our constitution are built is the natural equality of man

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word

The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.