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To: VRWC_minion
All of the enumerated rights are worhtless if the come from the state. +++

State is just to protect rights. Doesn't american state protect rights?
But the source of rights is not from state.


224 posted on 04/12/2003 6:07:54 PM PDT by RusIvan
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To: RusIvan
State is just to protect rights. Doesn't american state protect rights?

Russia creates the rights. This is no small difference. We do not rely on the state to protect our rights. We instead give the state limited power in for limited purposes. We also retain the power to resist the state and to overthrow the state if necessary and replace it.

In the constitution you showed me, all power is in the state and the state provides the rights and protections to its subjects.

In russia the state is supreme. In our country the individual is supreme.

This difference is more than semantics and is the reason Russia will never rival us. Our individual freedoms are no match for Russia's.

247 posted on 04/12/2003 6:20:09 PM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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