Posted on 05/19/2020 7:40:21 AM PDT by gaggs
This attitude towards the BoR was a ‘flaw’ according to the 44th President of the U.S.
All this over some piece of paper?
Democrats and too many Republicans lust to do this very thing: to take rights away.
Just as they lust to do as they please via Arbitrary government where, to paraphrase, they don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution to tell them “no, you can’t”.
If there is one thing American’s can learn from this nonsense, it’s that in the end... You really don’t have any rights and the one right you better make sure that you do maintain going forward... Is the right to bear arms because, you may need them to overthrow the tyrants who run your states.
The good news... Trump is in power. Imagine if you will or dare, the response of somebody like Obama, Clinton or Biden if they were in power during this ginned up crises. Thank your creator for that bit of luck.
Gun confiscation, like the quarantine shutdown, is a necessity for public safety. Oh, and so are the car towings, the destruction of livelihoods, and the eventual summary execution up against Greta's wall.
’ Obama, Clinton or Biden if they were in power during this ginned up crises’
And to think about going forward...Or Pritzker, Northam, Blasio, Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsome, Inslee, Murphy, or other mayors, commissioners, or other assorted Karens and Chads.
Oh almost forgot......Abrams too.
LOL! Oh, I was pretty sure it was merely a suggestion that perhaps the government might not take things from us.
I don’t agree with the title; it doesn’t go far enough. The government was not formed to not take away rights, but to actively and emphatically protect them. They have failed.
Our government was designed to protect those rights.
Bill of Rights?? My mom pays the bills, I’m sure she paid it last month.
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Nope. The Bill of Rights is to protect the individual FROM the government but 200 yrs of constant assault by professional liars (lawyers) has twisted it around.
Our government was designed to protect those rights.Nope. The Bill of Rights is to protect the individual FROM the government but 200 yrs of constant assault by professional liars (lawyers) has twisted it around.
Please explain. I do not see the difference in protecting the exercise of rights from protecting from government.
Decades of liberal/progressive efforts to censor, erase and deny the underlying ideas of liberty upon which the U. S. Constitution was framed have had consequences.
Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.
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America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights.." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.
Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.
This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of individual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.
Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
Until you're actually willing to resist, you don't actually possess any of those things as sovereign individuals with agency and control of your fate because the government will imprison or kill you for asserting your right to be bloody well left alone.
It can if you let it.
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There are 2 governments at play
Fedzilla is mandated to protect the nation against enemies and uphold the Constitution
The States’ mandate is to protect the residents’ life, liberty and property.
Bill of Rights
I wish our founders would not have called the first ten amendments by this name. They are not rights, they are privileges. Rights cannot be taken away and can only be accessed through God.
There is no right within the BOR that cannot be taken away with reasons. In this world the only possible right is the right to live and die. And even that becomes a privilege with abortion. Too much people call ideas rights that are nothing more than privileges.
Rights- a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way. (Note entitlement)
Privilege- comes from the Latin privilegium, meaning a law for just one person, and means a benefit enjoyed by an individual or group beyond what’s available to others. Sound closer?
Everything has a loophole or allows said to appear. The BOR has been hammered for 227 years. Rights, no, privileges, maybe.
rwood
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