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Constitution, as it was then composed. I suggest to you
very simply that if you believe that a man in this
country -- a free man, not a liberal, as some of us call
ourselves, not a conservative, as some of us call our-
selves, but a free man, as most of us choose to call our-
selves -- is not convicted in these United States until
he has had his trial and until someone has found him
guilty, not just a judge in whose discretion we wish to
place his bail, but the jury and the judge.
You would not find it proper to allow a judge,
a man like the rest of us, to decide whether or not the mar
who has beer. accused is going to be a harm to his community.
I believe that any ""an in this country, until he is con-
victed, is entitle to be free, and there is only one
reason for keeping '.im in jail, and that is he may not be
at the trial at th time we come to try him. I *ill vote
against this amendn-.snt. At a later date when it is
appropriate I will move to reconsider this matter. I
don't think I would like to tamper around with the Ten
Commandments ar T '-ldn't a""""" y-L-th tha 3il'. c' :.
Nothing ir the Constitution gives you a right to bail.