 | Marty Jezer - 1993 - 386 str.
...Republicans challenged Abbie's right to vote. Acting as his own lawyer before Judge Garb, Abbie argued, "No right is more precious in a free country than...laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. . . . Our Constitution leaves no room for classification of people in a way that unnecessarily abridges... | |
 | Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, Steven C. Wheatley, Melanie Beth Oliviero - 1993 - 416 str.
...representatives. Thus Justice Hugo L. Black expressed a critical tenet of democratic theory when he wrote: "No right is more precious in a free country than...the election of those who make the laws under which we ... must live."2 Constitutionalism, too, enshrines respect for human worth and dignity as its central... | |
 | Stephen L. Darwall - 1995 - 410 str.
...has said of the right to vote that it is the "preservative of all rights," and in Wesberry it stated: "Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." ~c' In Reynolds the Court recognized that this right involves more than the right simply... | |
 | Seyla Benhabib - 1996 - 388 str.
...plays an important role in the apportionment cases decided by the Supreme Court in the early 1960s. "No right is more precious in a free country than...live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory ¡/(he right to vote is undermined." Gray v. Sanders, cited in Reynolds v. Sims 377 US 533, at 558... | |
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No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined. 
