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To: nufsed
"So now the right to happiness is not a right."

Since when was there a right to happiness? Even if you are referring to the Constitution it only mentions a right to the "pursuit of happiness" and that is only in the preamble.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the preamble is not binding. The Right To Life movement tried to use the preamble to argue for a Consitutional ban on abortion, but that went nowhere.

The person playing the word games is the one you see when you look in the mirror.

93 posted on 10/28/2008 7:53:04 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
"to the Constitution it only mentions a right to the "pursuit of happiness" and that is only in the preamble. "

The words I mentioned are in the Declaration of Independence as was mentioned in another post. Still not binding as law.

111 posted on 10/28/2008 8:05:16 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

correct. Some of the posts I left off pursuit. Nice save.


113 posted on 10/28/2008 8:07:36 PM PDT by nufsed
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