[366] Id., 9: 6.
[367] Art. i., 9: 8.
[368] Id., 5: 4.
[369] Id., 7: 1.
[370] Id., 6: 2. This is a limitation of the freedom of choice of certain individuals rather than a limitation of Congress as a legislative body; but what is forbidden to a member of Congress cannot be made lawful for him by act of Congress; thus the limitation may be one of legislation. The provision (Art. i., 9: 2) concerning the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is not a limitation of the power of Congress, for Congress is the judge whether public safety requires the suspension of the writ.
[371] Art. iii., 3: 1, 2.
[372] Art. iii., 3: 2; Id. i., 9: 3.
[373] Id. iv., 3: 1.
[374] Id., 3: 2.
[375] The first ten Amendments were demanded in 1787–8 as specific limitations of legislative power of the United States, and as a protection of fundamental, original rights of the people.