SILENCE: The Ultimate Protector of Individual Rights

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Adams, John, 22

"Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados," 22

America vs. England in respect for individual rights, 19

American Bill of Rights, 21, 22, 23

See also specific amendments English antecedents to, 21

Assembly, freedom of, 23

Association crimes, 19

- B -

Beale, Robert, 7

Bearing witness

against self, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28

for truth, 6

Belief, crimes of, 19

Bill of Rights

American. See American Bill of Rights

English, 1689, 20

Bingley, William, 26

Black's Law Dictionary, 23

Book of Martyrs, The, 5

Bradshaw, John, 13, 14

Brandeis, Justice, 24

Breach of parliamentary privilege, 19

Burden of proof, 3, 7, 19, 25

See also Presumption of innocence

Bushell, Edward, 18

Business compared to government, 29

- C -

Canon law, 7

Capital punishment, abolition of, 13

Cartwright, Thomas, 7

Chambers, Richard, 25, 26

Charles 1, 10, 17

Civil disobedience, 8

Coercion

freedom from, 24

by government, 2, 29

initiation of, 2

Collier, George, 7

Committee of Examinations, House of Lords, 12

Common law, 5, 7,10, 17, 19, 20

Communist sympathies, 26

Confiscation by government, 29

Conscience, 7

crimes of, 19

of jury, 18

Conscientious objectors

against conscription, 13

against government, 29

against taxation, 27

Conscription, 13

Constitution, Supreme, back cover

Constitutional guarantees of freedom vs. freedom in minds of people, 22, 23

Contempt, 25, 26, 27, 28

Council of State, 13, 14, 15

Court of Common Pleas, 18

Courts

See also Trials common-law, 10

ecclesiastic. See Ecclesiastic courts

religious. See Ecclesiastic courts

Crimes

See also specific types of association, 19

of belief, 19

of conscience, 19

and minding one's own business, 24

political, 19

religious, 19

Cromwell, Oliver, 8, 10, 11,13, 14, 15, 16

- D -

Debtor prisons, abolition of, 13

Declaration of Rights, Virginia, 19

Dickenson, John, 21, 22

Dicey, A.V., 21

Dissidents, 28

Draft, 13

Due process of law, 6, 14, 15

- E -

Ecclesiastic courts, 10, 11

inquistorial procedure of, 5

England vs. America in respect for individual rights, 19

Bill of Rights of 1689 in, 20

sixteenth Century, 4

Smithfield, 4

thirteenth Century, 5

Ex officio' oath, 5, 9, 13

Expression, freedom of, 13, 19

- F -

Failure to file income tax returns, 28

Fair trial, 6, 14, 15

Federalists, 21

Fifth Amendment, 19, 21, 22, 23

See also American Bill of Rights

Force, back cover

freedom from, 24, back cover

by government, 2, 29

initiation of, 2, back cover

Foxe, John, 5, 6

Fox, Sir John, 26

Freeborn, John. See Lilburne, John

Freedom

See also Liberty; specific freedoms of assembly, 23

from coercion, 24

constitutional guarantees of vs. in minds of people, 22, 23

of expressions, 13, 19

of press, 13, 16, 23

of religion, 6, 13, 16, 19, 23

to speak truth, 9

of speech, 6, 16, 19

Fundamentals of liberty, 8

- G -

Government

burden of proof on, 3

coercion from, 2, 29

confiscation by, 29

conscientious objectors against, 29

force used by, 2, 29

invasive nature of, 2, 24,

private business compared to, 29

rational distrust and rejection of, 23

and right to be let alone, 24

rights abridged by, 24, 25, 29

rights guaranteed by, 22, 23

Star-Chamber-like aspects of, 28

Guarantee of rights by government, 22, 23

- H -

Hersey, 19,

Heretics, 4, 5

Puritan, 7

High Commission, abolishment of, 10

Homesteading of property, 23

House of Commons, 7-8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15

House of Lords, 12, 13

Committee of Examinations of, 12

Howell, the recorder, 17

"Humble Petition of Many Thousands, The," 12

- I -

Immunity from outside interference, 24

Imprisonment for debt, abolition of, l3

Inalienable (natural) rights, 23

Income tax returns, 28

Individual rights, 21

conflict between government and, 24, 25, 29

England vs, America in respect for, 19

as privileges granted by government, 22, 23

Individual self-ownership, 3, 22, 23

Inherent (natural) rights, 23

Initiation of force, 2

Innocence, presumption of, 10, 15, 18, 19, 24, 27

Inquisitions, 4, 5

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 27, 28

Invasive nature

of government, 2, 24

of taxation, 2

IRS. See Internal Revenue Service

- J -

Jury

conscience of, 18

punishment of for verdict, 18

trial by, 13, 15, 16

- K -

King's Council, 13th Century, 5

- L -

Lambert, John 4, 5

Law

canon, 7

common, 5, 7, 10, 17, 19, 20

of conscience, 7

liberty secured by, 23

due process of, 6, 14, 15

natural, 22, 23

Levellers, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18

Levy, Leonard, 4, 7, 8, 11, 16, 19, 23

Libel, 19, 26

Libertarians, 8, 10

See also specific individuals

Liberty

See also Freedom; specific freedoms fundamentals of, 8

political, 19

security of through laws, 23

Lilburne, John (Freeborn John), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,25

Lilburne, Mrs., 12

Logic, 2

Long Parliament, 9, 20

- M -

Magna Carta, 6, 7, 11, 19

Mansfield, Lord, 26

Martinist religious tracts, 6

Martyrs, 6

Mason, George, 19

McCarthy era, 26

McCauley, 20

Mead, William, 17

Military conscription, 13

Minding one's own business, 24

- N -

Natural law, 22, 23

Natural Rights, 23

New Testament translation, 4

Non-conformity, 19

Non-cooperation, 2

North Briton, 26

- O -

Oath 'ex officio', 5, 9, 13

Obedience Of Christian Man, The, 4

Origins of the Fifth Amendment, The, 4, 23

Overton, Richard, 10, 12, 13, 14

- P -

Paradox of persecution, 6

Parliament, 8, 11, 12

See also House of Commons; House of Lords

Long, 9, 20

Rump, 9

Parliamentary privilege, 19

Penn, William, 17, 18

Persecution

paradox of, 6

political, 6, 13

religious, 4, 5

Persistence of persecuted ideas, 6

Petition of Right of 1628, 9, 11, 14, 19, 20

Pleading, 11

refusal to agree to, 14

Political liberty, 19

See also specific rights

Political martyrdom, 6

Political prisoners, 13

Press, freedom of, 13, 16, 23

Presumption of innocence, 10, 15, 18, 19, 24, 27

See also Burden of proof

Presumption of proof.

See Burden of proof

Prince and Princess of Orange, 20

Prince, Thomas, 13, 14

Private business compares to government, 29

Privilege vs. rights, 3, 23

Procedural rights, 6, 14, 15

Proof, burden of. See Burden of proof

Propaganda arts, 8

Property, 23

homesteading of, 23

rights to, 22

Protestants, 4, 7

persecution of, 4, 5

Protesters against taxes, 28

Public sympathy, 6

Puritans, 7, 17

- Q -

Quakers, 17

- R -

Rational distrust and rejection of government, 23

Rational logic, 2

Refusal

to bear witness against oneself, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28

to cooperate, 2

to plead, 14

Rejection of government, 23

Religious courts.

See Ecclesiastic courts

Religious crimes, 19

Religious freedom, 6, 13, 16, 19, 23

Religious heretics, 5

Religious martyrs, 6

Religious persecution, 4, 5

Religious tithes, 13

Rights

See also specific rights to be let alone, 24, 28

to fair trial, 6, 14, 15

guarantee of by government, 22, 23

government abridgement of, 24, 25, 29

of immunity from outside interference, 24

individual. See Individual rights natural, 23

vs. privileges, 3, 23,

procedural, 6,14, 15

property, 22

against self-incrimination, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28

Self-ownerships 3, 22, 23

Right of silence

See also Self-incrimination, rights against England vs. America in, 19

Rump Parliament, 15

- S -

Sanction, withdrawal of, 2

Schism, 19

Schwartz, Bernard, 21

Seditious libel, 19

Self-incrimination, right against, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28

Self ownership, 3, 22, 23,

Sixth Amendment, 19

Smithfield, England, 4

Speech, freedom of, 6, 16, 19

Star Chamber, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 25

abolishment of, 7, 10

government compared to, 28

IRS compared to, 27

State. See Government

St. Germain, Christopher, 5

Supreme Constitution, back cover

Supreme Court, 27, 28

Sympathy from public, 6

- T -

Taxation, 29

conscientious objectors against, 27

invasive nature of, 2

protesters against, 28

Tithes, 13

Treason, 14, 17, 19

Trials

See also Courts

jury, 13, 15, 16

fiar, 6, 14, 15

Truth

bearing witness for, 6

freedom to speak, 9

Tyndale, William, 4

- U -

Udall, John, 6, 7, 25

Un-American Activities Committee, U.S. House, 26

U.S. Constitution, 21

See also specific amendments

Bill of Rights of. See American Bill of Rights

fifth amendment to 19, 21, 22, 23

sixth amendment to, 19

U.S. House of Representative Un-American Activities Committee, 26

U. S. Supreme Court, 27, 28

- V -

Virginia Declaration of Rights, 19

- W -

Watner, Carl, I

Walwyn, William, 10, 13, 14

Wilkes, John, 26

Withdrawal of sanction, 2

Witness

against self, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28

for truth, 6

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