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To: Sudetenland
Driving is clearly a right and individuals have no right to vote for the person seeking the office of President of the U.S.

Visit your dictionary, history and law books, little one.

188 posted on 01/16/2009 7:04:47 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
Driving is not "clearly a right." It is less clearly a right than is the right to vote, to speak, to own a gun, or to own property.

I suggest that you might try reading a few history, law, and constitutional law books and treatises...you might begin with the reference to which I linked earlier.

If driving is a right, then it is one of the most restricted and constrained "rights" we have. You must pass a test to drive, you don't have to pass a test to vote. You have to have a license to drive, you don't have to have a license to vote, merely a registration and in some cases not even that. I think maybe you need to bone up on the two definitions (right and privilege) and then get back to me...that is if you can read.

The reference to which you referred me offers some compelling arguments, but I know of no other "right" held inherently by the people which must be paid for, licensed, tested-both knowledge and skills, inspected and can only be exercised if you can financial responsibility. You drive at the sufference of the state and they can revoke that privilege if they deem you unfit, physically, mentally, or fiscally.

Show me another "right" that is so tightly constrained and I will show you a privilege.
192 posted on 01/16/2009 7:31:06 PM PST by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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To: elkfersupper
"individuals have no right to vote for the person seeking the office of President of the U.S."

You might want to begin your education with the 19th Amendment. It is short enough that even someone like you might be able to read it.
195 posted on 01/16/2009 7:44:08 PM PST by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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