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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Uh,,,,,,,”inalienable rights.”


3 posted on 03/12/2009 10:19:07 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
uh... take it up with the founders. This is what they wrote:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

6 posted on 03/12/2009 10:54:47 AM PDT by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Found an explanation:

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

inalienable, unalienable (adjs.)

These two exact synonyms are still Standard, but inalienable, though a trifle younger than unalienable (both are seventeenth century words) is the more common today. Things inalienable [unalienable] cannot be given away, transferred, or otherwise removed.


7 posted on 03/12/2009 10:57:50 AM PDT by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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