Today, December 15, 2011, we the people of the United States should be celebrating the birth of our honored Bill of Rights, ratified exactly 220 years ago on December 15, 1791.

But instead of joyfully and proudly observing the birthday of that cherished document, which has distinguished this country as a model of democracy over time and across the world, we gather here on this Federal Plaza in sadness and shame to mourn its impending death.

Without fanfare but in an atmosphere of suspicion a...
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