Author: Jason Flores-Williams

Jason Flores-Williams, attorney and author, runs his own legal practice doing landmark constitutional litigation while representing political outlaws, dissidents and whistleblowers. His writings and cases have been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, et al. He currently lives in Denver where he skis at least 50 times a year.

Photograph of a plaque featuring the United States Bill of Rights taken by Ted Mielczarek and published under a Creative Commons license

A New Bill of Rights

By Jason Flores-Williams
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Posted in Politics, United States

The United States needs a new Bill of Rights. After the Revolutionary War ended, the aristocratic founders of the United States enacted a Constitution for the federal government. The document was brilliant in theory, but less so in practice. In 1789, a few founders decided that we needed a Bill of Rights to go along with the Constitution in order to set limits to government power. (More…)