"No state shall convert a liberty into a privilege, license it, and attach a fee to it."
--Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105.
"The claim & exercise of a constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime."
-- Miller vs. U.S., F486, 489.
"There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of Constitutional Rights." --Sherar v. Cullen, 481 F. 2d 946
"If the state converts a liberty into a privilege, the citizen can engage in the right with impunity." -- Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 373 US 262
"Officers of the court have no immunity, when violating a Constitutional right, from liability. For they are deemed to know the law." -- Owen v. Independence, 100 S.C.T. 1398, 445 US 622; Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232.