[T]he framers had derived the conviction that human rights … - Laurence Tribe

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[T]he framers had derived the conviction that human rights could best be preserved by inaction and indirection—shielded behind... deliberately fragmented centers of countervailing power, in a vision almost Newtonian...

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Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the , and co-founder of the . He is the author of several books, including a major treatise, American Constitutional Law (1978) and has argued before the dozens of times.

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Alternative Names: Laurence Henry Tribe • Laurence H. Tribe

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Every sentence, every phrase, is in part silent with respect to how a reader or listener is to go about attributing meaning to it...

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There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence.

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