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To: Altariel
AT #346 you said: "There is no “right to call the cops” mentioned in the Constitution, and the Founders would not have conceived of such a “right” because Robert Peel founded the modern police force in 1829." ~ so I guess it's you.

Again, you arguing that a right of the people does not exist unless its stated in the Constitution ~ and that's just wrong. Our Constitution is open ended. The people have all the rights, even rights undreamed of, unless the Constitution provides that the government has the right or privilege in question.

384 posted on 06/14/2012 3:36:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

You failed to understand my post.

You said “Peel is dead”—no one claimed that he was not.

I spoke correctly; there is no “right to call the cops” in the Constitution. That phrase is never included.

You have repeatedly distorted what the tenth amendment actually reads. Read it again. Neither the word “right” or “rights” appear in the tenth amendment. The Founders wrote it that way for a reason.

You are cheapening what the Constitution actually reads by basing your argument around a non-existent “constitutional right”. Read what the Constitution actually states.

My observation—that your anachronistic “right” is partly in error because it flaunts ignorance of the timing of the ratification of the Constitution in comparison to the founding of the modern police force—is spot on.

Read what was actually written, not what you would have liked me to have written, and do your homework.


403 posted on 06/14/2012 8:10:16 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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