...require "that government action, whether through one agency or another, shall be consistent with the fundamental principles of liberty and justice which...the base of all our civil and political institutions and not infrequently are designated as 'law of the land.'"18 Constitutional absolution for the concealment...

...their own government. Indeed, if due process means anything, it means that the courts must defend the "fundamental principles of liberty and justice which...base of all our civil and political institutions." Powell v. Alabama, 287 US 45, 67 (1932) (internal quotation marks omitted). The Constitution is suffused...

...right to life, liberty, and property; that is, to assure that the law remains within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of our civil and political institutions.180 There are limitations on [state] power which grow out of the...

...framed the specific issue in Palko: Did the state court's denial of double jeopardy protection "violate those 'fundamental principles of liberty and justice...base of all our civil and political institutions'?" The Court held that "[t]he answer surely must be 'no.'" Three decades later, the Court in Benton v....

...perspective, is whether a right "is of such a character that it cannot be denied without violating those 'fundamental principles of liberty and justice...which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions.'"45 A reconsideration of the Ninth Amendment, then, offers constitutional appeal for...

...the traditions and collective conscience of our people that failure to recognize it would violate the fundamental principles of liberty and justice which...base of all our civil and political institutions. 124 Rather than making a case for gay marriage on the more controversial basis of sexual-orientation...

...that would guide the process of selective incorporation: whether the claimed liberty was one of "the fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions."41 The Hughes Court protected press freedom in Near v. Minnesota ( 1 93 1 )41 and in...

...democracy, for they are "preservative of all rights."114 Both types of basic liberties are rooted in "fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions."115 To contend that liberty of conscience and freedom of association underwrite deliberative...

...The fact that the right involved is of such a character that it cannot be denied without violating is obviously one of those compelling considerations which must prevail in determining whether it is...

...produce "a hardship so acute and shocking that our polity will not endure it" and whether it violated those "fundamental principles of liberty and justice...base of all our civil and political institutions." 44 In defining fundamental rights, Cardozo listed the First Amendment's freedoms of speech, press,...