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To: Big Midget
That's why Madison and the other founders excluded the concept of the right to be secure in our homes, persons, and property from the Bill of Rights.

Like every other Constitutional right, that is not an absolute and never has been. Otherwise, people could conceivably roam the streets at will robbing, raping, and murdering their fellow citizens, but be olly olly oxen free if they simply make it home before the police catch them.

I sometimes wonder if enough of my fellow countrymen are ever again going to 'grock' the concept of "rights."

Actually that's "grok", at least if you're referring to its approximate Heinleinian meaning; "to understand fully down to one's soul".

Rights are NOT something the government grants us. Rights come from God.

I have no dispute with that. But like everything else, you have to read the fine print. There is no such thing as a right that is never subject to challenge or interpretation. For if there were, justice would be as simple as printing a rule book or leaving the enforcement of man's law up to God.

13 posted on 01/09/2004 5:39:29 PM PST by Johnny_Cipher ("... and twenty thousand bucks to complete my robot. My GIRL robot.")
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