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To: Hemingway's Ghost
“But you're right in that collective bargaining is NOT a right because of one simple thing: God does not give...”

Collective bargaining is not a God-given right, not an unalienable right, not a natural right, but it may be a legal right or a contract right or some other kind of right.

“A collective has no rights;”

That begs questions regarding “the right of the people peaceably to assemble”. Can an individual assemble alone? Are not “the people” as used here a collective with the right to do something that an individual can not do alone?

“The distinction is subtle but important because rights come from God and exist regardless of human government. “

Can you truthfully and honestly say that about the right to a trial by jury and the right to vote?

33 posted on 03/10/2011 5:04:39 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Curs(ed be those who don't.)
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To: KrisKrinkle

People have the right to assemble, but the assembly itself, as an entity, has no rights.

As for the right to trial by jury and the right to vote, I believe the philosophical underpinings of both, i.e. the right of liberty, make the particular expressions of that right unalienable.


37 posted on 03/11/2011 4:37:46 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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