About Constitution Caps

Free speech and due process are protected in the First and Fifth Amendments contained in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, enacted in 1791. The Fourteenth Amendment extends due process to the states. In sum, there are 27 amendments, ratified between 1791 and 1992. Perhaps… hopefully… there are more to come - milestones along a long, imperfect, somehow inexorable arc of a remarkable nation.

Thses caps - a little playfully, a little boldly - affirm our support for the two quite important principles of free speech and due process. In time, perhaps there will be a shelf of 27 caps for each amendment, though some could prove tricky to shoehorn into a pithy, cap-sized phrase. But it might be fun to try.
Whatcha wearin today?
Uhhh… the 17th!

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Enjoy!

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Fourteenth Amendment: Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

"Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between men, and their beliefs-in religion, literature, colleges, and schools— democracy in all public and private life."

-Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871.