To: SmithL
Assuming this decision sticks,
how do all the aggrieved from former generations
get recompensed?
/sarcasm
I find it very difficult to believe that the state's constitution granted this "right."
2 posted on
07/20/2006 10:18:40 AM PDT by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: GretchenM
Our rights are not granted by documents. They are sometimes confirmed in them, or enshrined in them, but they are not granted by them. And the absence of a right from the text of a documents does not mean, in the least, that the right does not exist and is not fundamental.
5 posted on
07/20/2006 10:26:59 AM PDT by
lugsoul
(Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
To: GretchenM
Constitutions do not GRANT rights -- they are SUPPOSED to delineate the extent to which a government may infringe or restrict those rights.
16 posted on
07/20/2006 10:46:04 AM PDT by
LN2Campy
To: GretchenM
I find it very difficult to believe that the state's constitution granted this "right."And as all Americans know, rights are not endowed by our Creator, but given by the grace of government. I learned this from Ronald Reagan himself /sarcasm off
17 posted on
07/20/2006 10:47:52 AM PDT by
You Dirty Rats
(I Love Free Republic!!!)
To: GretchenM
I find it very difficult to believe that the state's constitution granted this "right."It doesn't matter whether the constitution grants a "right" if the constitution doesn't grant the government the "power" to act in the first place. It's disconcerting how many people have a serious mental block over understanding that concept..
19 posted on
07/20/2006 10:52:52 AM PDT by
AntiGuv
("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
To: GretchenM
PS. I should say that in principle it doesn't matter, since in practice it obviously does matter.
21 posted on
07/20/2006 10:59:31 AM PDT by
AntiGuv
("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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152 posted on
07/21/2006 6:37:23 AM PDT by
freepatriot32
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