"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be pre-existing [unalienable, natural rather than government-given, human birth-rights]."

Author: Justice William J. Brennan

Notes: (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice, in 1982.