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To: RightWhale
Expand on that sometime.

Well, they're ignoring the most important principle of all these days: That the right to life is God-given and inalienable.

Add to that the various ways they're ignoring other important inalienable rights that are spelled out in the Bill of Rights. One example would be the breach of the First Amendment right to free political speech represented by so-called 'campaign finance reform'. There are others.

But private property rights are what I would call 'the third leg' after life and liberty.

This ruling does grave damage to American liberty, IMO.

Our only remedy, short of rebellion, is to keep working until we get a majority of real conservatives on the court.

If our current POTUS nominates another phony, it will be an infamous betrayal of those who elected him.

I hope and pray he doesn't do that to the country and to his legacy.

406 posted on 06/23/2005 9:33:47 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Nice 'til I'm not.)
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To: EternalVigilance
The State created the right of bequest. The natural right along those lines would be of the clan to take your family property. This was a great advance for civilization, to uphold the right of the family over the clan.

While the power of the State to assert eminent domain over family property must exist in order for the State to also enforce the right of bequest, we are concerned more with the amount of fair and just compensation than with the basic power. The power has always been there.

609 posted on 06/23/2005 11:12:11 AM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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