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To: Borges; Bushbacker

"However that's not in the Constitution which states that our rights come from 'We The People'."



Borges, are you really that clueless? The Constitution says that "We the People . . . establish this Constitution." Nowhere does it say that our rights come from We the People. You should also know that the original Constitution (adopted in 1787 and effective upon ratification of the 9th state in 1789) did not include the Bill of Rights, which rights were not adopted until 1791, and that such rights were DECLARATORY in nature; the Founders recognized that such rights came from God, not Man (read the Declaration of Independence sometime) and the first 8 amendments to the Constitution merely *declared* these rights without purporting to exclude other God-given rights (as made clear by the 9th Amendment).


806 posted on 01/17/2006 4:04:34 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
The DOI of course has no legal standing in this country. It has no bearing on our legal rights. Whatever the beliefs of the Founding Fathers individually The US Constitution is a throughly secular document. There have been movements throughout our history to amend the Preamble to the Constitution and mention God explicitly. This has always been turned down.
892 posted on 01/17/2006 7:40:13 PM PST by Borges
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