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To: Westbrook

I agree with you. I was wondering where she found the right to do anything> The Constitution gives the people rights, and takes them away from the government.


9 posted on 06/05/2016 11:39:59 AM PDT by kempster
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To: kempster
The Constitution gives the people rights, and takes them away from the government.

I'm sorry, but that statement is incorrect, and if this is the premise from which you begin, you have already lost the argument.

The Constitution doesn't "give" the people rights. To say this is to say that our rights derive from the government, they do not. They are GOD GIVEN, and the Constitution simply recognizes and enumerates those rights.

21 posted on 06/05/2016 11:54:46 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: kempster

> “The Constitution gives the people rights, and takes them
> away from the government.”

A nit, but a very important one.

The Constitution does not give rights to anyone. Only God can do that.

The Constitution only recognizes the rights endowed to us by our Creator, and promises to constrain the Federal government from imposing or encroaching upon any of those rights.


23 posted on 06/05/2016 11:55:25 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: kempster

Since when did SHRILLERY ever give a damn about the CONSTITUTION?
To her it is just an annoying document that keeps getting in the way of her quest for ABSOLUTE POWER.


33 posted on 06/05/2016 12:02:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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