MPs Facing Police Over Expenses Look to Ancient Bill of Rights for Protection

Lawyers for the MPs are looking at whether the 1689 act could protect them from prosecution.

If the Commons rule book, which has for years governed the expenses claims of MPs, is found to be covered by privilege then it could severely hamper attempts by prosecutors to bring MPs to court.'

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Danger - 2 States From Constitutional Convention

This is the most urgent, most important action alert the American Policy Center has ever issued!

The Ohio state legislature is expected to vote today, Wednesday, Dec. 10th, to call for a Constitutional Convention (Con Con). If Ohio calls for a Con Con only one more state need do so and Congress will have no choice but to convene a Convention, throwing our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights up for grabs.

Ohio's vote today poses a grave threat to the U.S. Constitution. Please immediately call the Ohio lawmakers listed below. ACT FAST - time is of the essence!

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Ministers Revolt On Brown’s Rights Bill

THE prime minister’s high-profile plan to introduce a “bill of rights and responsibilities” is in disarray following a cabinet revolt.
Ministers have warned Gordon Brown that his proposed charter laying out the rights and duties of citizens is unworkable and could pave the way for a deluge of court cases.
Earlier this year Brown hailed the proposed bill as “of fundamental importance to our liberties and to our constitutional settlement” and said it “opens a new chapter in the British story of liberty”.

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The Final Looting Of America - By Outlaws In D.C

Outlaw is defined as: a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law. Americans who care about freedom and liberty have known for a long time that Congress has simply become a lawless group of political animals who care nothing for the supreme law of the land. For decades they have turned a blind eye to other outlaws operating on their behalf: non elected officials in the various cabinets and agencies who have been destroying a free market system and the Bill of Rights. The list is so long, it would fill ten columns.

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UK-Call over scope of Bill of Rights

A potential new Bill of Rights should go further than current human rights laws, parliamentarians said.
The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said a new Bill should take in new areas of international human rights, and contain a specific guarantee of the right to asylum.
It should also maintain peoples' rights to a "healthy and sustainable environment", the committee added.
But MPs and peers rejected the idea that any rights spelt out in the document could depend on individuals living up to their responsibilities. "We conclude that a Bill of Rights and Freedoms should not include directly enforceable duties," their report said.
Instead, the basic duties of a citizen to have a "civic duty" to their community, the country and future generations could be spelt out in a preamble to the Bill. It also rejected the idea that any new law could be called a "British Bill of Rights" and proposed the name "UK Bill of Rights".

We need to study this piece of proposed legislation every step of the way especially the Conservatives version and input.

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