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To: stand watie; LS

How right you are sir! The rights given to us by GOD --they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights--are ours every second of every day. We have the ability to give them away, but not the right to. That is why TJ wrote "to resist tyrants is to obey GOD". If "for our common defense" gives the government the right to choke off our liberties, it puts us in the position of needful resistance.
All any tyrant would need to do is declare war against an imagined enemy to rule over us forever.

149 posted on 02/05/2006 10:05:02 AM PST by smug (Tanstaafl)

The rights given to us by GOD --they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights--are ours every second of every day.

For about 2/3rds of the population anyway, so far as the confederacy was concerned.

166 posted on 02/05/2006 12:49:10 PM PST by Non-Sequitur

206 posted on 02/06/2006 7:45:13 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to GOD. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)

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