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To: Don W; SatinDoll
Well, other than the “all other rights are reserved to the states or the people”...

Common error. It says all other 'powers', not rights (ie, there is no such thing a State's Rights, but instead, State's Powers). Rights are considered inalienable. This has long been an internal conflict both on the right and left in terms of how they view rights and powers. Are rights something that can be infringed upon by any level of government or are they inalienable to the individual. Traditionally Conservatives have been on the side of the latter with only extreme 'States Rights(sic)' type folks (those who think States have the rights to do anything, period). States having the power to trump individual rights is the side the left has often fallen on. A good example is the Heller decision where they argued that States (or in this case DC) had the right to infringe upon 2nd Amendment rights.

Generally as a rule though, Conservatives always should come down on the side of rights as being inalienable to the individual and not to be trampled upon by any governmental authority, be it Federal, State, or Local.

19 posted on 04/04/2013 12:49:42 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

Yes! Thank you for reminding me.

People have rights while government, state or federal, have powers.


24 posted on 04/04/2013 12:56:49 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: mnehring
Rights are considered inalienable.

Untrue; there are legal rights which are certainly alienable (that's actually how power of attorney works).

43 posted on 04/04/2013 1:54:24 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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