Delegates also endorsed a constitutional guarantee on human rights, though it was ambiguous and made no mention of political freedom.

True, a few states had such a requirement on their own, but those states had never rested this requirement on a federal constitutional guarantee.

He said it would render insecure and valueless every constitutional guarantee...

His proposal included broader forms of autonomy, including a constitutional guarantee of free and directly elected local self-governance.

Citizens have a constitutional guarantee of the right to use their own spoken and written language in court proceedings.