United States, Educator July 20, 1894 – September, 10, 1949.
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. was an American educator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and previously was a Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the First Article's assurance.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
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