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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit; Congressman Billybob
One comment: The Bill of Rights is not a prioritization list i.e. one right is more important than another. The Second Amendment is equal in importance to the First Amendment is equal in importance to the Fifth Amendment, etc.

In other words, the Bill of Rights should not be confused with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics...

I'll defer to our resident Constitutional scholar on that point. :-)

20 posted on 07/13/2006 4:52:30 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: Jonah Hex

You are probably right and naturally before the law, the amendments are all equal. But, I would contest that 1 and 2 were at least strategically placed by the Founders to make sure people remembered them.

They do seem to be more fundamental to preserving representative democracy than the others.

Moreover, the modern American economy is built on breaking the 10th commandment. I figure the owners of business and their advertisers who promote and "aspirational lifestyle" figured God probably didn't even mean the whole coveting of the house thing, otherwise he wouldn't have put it last. He was probably just trying to come up with something to get a round figure.


21 posted on 07/13/2006 5:28:16 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit ("my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side" - Lincoln)
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To: Jonah Hex
The Bill of Rights is not a prioritization list i.e. one right is more important than another. The Second Amendment is equal in importance to the First Amendment is equal in importance to the Fifth Amendment, etc.

They are not listed in order of importance, and all are important.

But the most important Amendment is the one that has taken the biggest beating to the point where it almost doesn't exist. I refer, of course, to the 10th Amendment.

185 posted on 07/24/2006 4:43:58 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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