To: AnAmericanMother
It's a privilege of free men, not a right.
What's the difference?
To: HaveHadEnough
A privilege is contingent on certain duties and responsibilities.
A right is not contingent, although it may be lost or abrogated by misconduct.
E.g.: a driver's license is a privilege, contingent on meeting certain requirements and passing a test.
The right to life is absolute.
The Great Writ traditionally was confined to freeborn males, and additionally in early times to those qualified to participate in the Witangemot or assembly of the people.
15 posted on
01/19/2007 10:58:45 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: HaveHadEnough
What's the difference? That would depend upon your definition of what is is. LOL
16 posted on
01/19/2007 10:59:20 AM PST by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: HaveHadEnough
It's a privilege of free men, not a right. What's the difference?
The number of pages of convuluted legal reasoning in the SCOTUS decisions to take away a right versus the number of pages in a SCOTUS decision taking away a privilege, from what I can see.
27 posted on
01/19/2007 11:37:02 AM PST by
dirtboy
(Duncan Hunter - a candidate who doesn't need infomercials to convince you he's a conservative)
To: HaveHadEnough
It's a privilege of free men, not a right. What's the difference?
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.
91 posted on
06/19/2007 7:56:59 PM PDT by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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