Happy Bill of Rights Day

What you see is my favorite image of the Bill of Rights. It's a 1966 postage stamp issued on the 175th anniversary of the ratification of the first ten amendments. The stamp was designed by Herb Block, the legendary cartoonist for The Washington Post. I was so determined to have this image in my book that I bought the stamp from a dealer and took this picture myself.

Textualists will note that the line on the stamp does not actually appear in the Constitution. (Stamps followed a purposive method back then, I suppose). The image of the fist and the palm was meant to evoke the Cold War, though the Civil Rights Movement was also a theme. The struggle that the stamp depicts, though, remains as vital as ever.