Reality getting one step closer to the Shadowrun, Sixth World GM screen.
but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions"
Then the next step is to conduct your political career as if you also believed this. [2/2]
If this works, my go-to legal defense forever will be "Your honor, you need to keep letting me break the law, because I promised other people I would break the law if they gave me money! And they did! And I don't want to give up that money!"
IANAL, obviously, but feels pretty air-tight.