"The essence of my objection to a bill of rights is that, contrary to its very description, it reduces the rights of citizens to determine matters over which they should continue to exercise control. It does this by transferring decision-making authority to unelected judges, accountable to no one except in the barest theoretical sense," Mr Howard said. (enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el [//web.archive.org/web/*/John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing historial, la John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing primera versión y la John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing última).
"The essence of my objection to a bill of rights is that, contrary to its very description, it reduces the rights of citizens to determine matters over which they should continue to exercise control. It does this by transferring decision-making authority to unelected judges, accountable to no one except in the barest theoretical sense," Mr Howard said. (enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el [//web.archive.org/web/*/John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing historial, la John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing primera versión y la John Howard rejects Bill of Rights as buck passing última).