Opinion: The Bill of Rights guarantees fundamental freedoms. Is it waning?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : If Americans generally abandon their allegiance to the paramount freedoms of the First Amendment, there will be little the Supreme Court (or anyone else) can do to save us from ourselves.
50% : Eight years later, this ostensible right to privacy became the basis of the Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade that the Constitution guarantees a robust right to abortion.
50% : The Constitution's protections with respect to criminal procedures remain remarkably relevant, and in my view the essential guarantees of the First Amendment -- religious liberty, the freedoms of speech and of the press, the right of peaceful protest -- are as timeless as they are priceless.
47% : It's nice to know, for instance, that the government can't require us to quarter troops in peacetime, but most of us don't often think about the third amendment.
46% : As for the Gobitis' claims that their religious liberty had been infringed, the court explained that Billy and Lillian's parents remained free to teach them whatever religious principles they pleased -- at home.
46% : "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation," Jackson wrote, "it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." By forcing students to salute the flag in violation of their religious convictions, the court held, school districts around the country were unconstitutionally prescribing orthodoxy.
36% : In a time when one hears much talk of the imperatives of corporate morality, perhaps the most urgent imperative of all is for corporations and citizens alike to re-embrace the spirit of the First Amendment.
15% : Roe has proved a source of intense and enduring controversy, as have rulings related to a host of other hot-button issues -- from affirmative action to same-sex marriage, from assisted suicide to corporate political speech.

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