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To: Sender

There are any number of natural and/or God-given rights. None of them has the least legal status unless some legislature and/or court affirms it. Hobbes tells me that, having been sentenced to death for, say, blowing up an orphanage, I have a perfectly natural right to kill my jailers (or anyone else) in order to escape execution. Shall we conservatives stand on the sidelines and cheer as killers exercise their natural rights in such circumstances? I hope not. That’s part of what it means to live under a government of laws, not of men.


21 posted on 03/27/2009 4:10:52 PM PDT by HMI
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To: HMI

If we accept that all our God-given rights are subject to the affirmation of some court, then we have lost. I want to win.


24 posted on 03/27/2009 4:30:02 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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