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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Where do rights come from?

God.

261 posted on 04/04/2008 12:29:13 PM PDT by cowboyway ("No damn man kills me and lives." -- Nathan Bedford Forrest)
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To: cowboyway
Very good. Now, if rights come from God, how can a government have them? For a government to have rights, you'd have claim that governments--good, bad or indifferent--are ordained by God, who is the source of rights. In other words, you're claiming the "Divine Right of Kings."

People have rights. They create governments and give them powers to protect these rights. Governments don't have rights.

264 posted on 04/04/2008 12:49:43 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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