After describing the plight of a Washington woman who saw intruders shoot and kill her daughter, Mr. Clinton said: "There are many rights that our laws and our Constitution guarantee to every citizen.

The American Civil Liberties Union has sided with Mr. Limbaugh in the case, arguing in a supporting brief that Palm Beach County prosecutors violated Florida law and the privacy rights that the state's Constitution guarantees, when they seized Mr. Limbaugh's records.

From his prison cell, Mr. Bellamy has argued for the last five years that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel that the Constitution guarantees.

As he put it, "In practice, what the Constitution guarantees is often only available to Muslims, but Muslims who are associated with the ruling party."

In a state that has seen its Federal caseload increase 40 percent since 1980, the lawmakers have argued that their constituents are not receiving the quick resolution of cases that the Constitution guarantees.

He was freed from a New Jersey jail last year, after a federal district judge ruled that "the government's use of secret evidence violates the due process" that the Constitution guarantees, even to resident aliens.

Mr. Budlender said the center is preparing to sue the Justice Minister, a former staff member, because the Government has refused to provide lawyers to criminal suspects as the Constitution guarantees.

The "atomic veterans" say that their inability to hire lawyers to press their cases in the legally and medically complex dispute, and to take appeals to the Federal courts, effectively deprives them of the "due process of law" that the Constitution guarantees.

You are doing this in a way that denies millions of Americans the trust and respect for our views, that we afford to you and that we feel we deserve and our Constitution guarantees.