Civil rights, personal freedom, free speech

Civil rights organizations and useful links:

• Liberty - protecting civil liberties promoting human rights.
• www.civilliberty.org.uk
• Melon farmers anti-censorship site.
• Campaign against the ban on unauthorized demonstrations in Central London.
• Sean Gabb's English Constitution Resource Page.

Contact your MPs etc.:

• WriteToThem.com - Email or fax your Councillors, MP, MEP or MSP plus Welsh or London Assembly Member for free.
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Is your MP working for you in the UK's Parliament?
• The Public Whip - Counting votes on your behalf.

Important civil rights documents:

• The United States Constitution and Amendments, from the U.S. House web site.
• Another copy of the Constitution, from Cornell University. This one is in a more hypertext-friendly format.
• The Bill of Rights and the sorry state of how it is applied today.
• The English Bill of Rights, from 1688.
• The Magna Carta of King John.
• U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  (more informally known as the "European Convention on Human Rights").
• The German "Grundgesetz" (Basic Law)
  (complete, in German) and an English translation of Section I (Basic Rights).
• Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (1789) and an English translation of the same.
• Basic Laws of the State of Israel.
• The Constitution of the former U.S.S.R., for purely comparative purposes.
• Historical Civil Rights Documents from www.bigduck.com.
• Writings of the U.S. Founding Fathers on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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