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To: Loud Mime
Government can grant rights within a legalistic framework; it’s their laws and their power to exercise.

The Second Amendment is a good example.

Could you explain?

41 posted on 07/30/2009 9:53:02 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: wastedyears
Amendment II : A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

The Bill of rights is not all rights, some of the amendments are limitations of federal power. The word "right" appears in Amendments II, IV, VII and to some point IX. These are recognized by government and its enforcement mechanisms.

43 posted on 07/30/2009 10:07:53 AM PDT by Loud Mime (More government jobs and benefits and more unemployment sets the stage for real disaster)
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