To: HaveHadEnough
A privilege is contingent on certain duties and responsibilities.
A right is not contingent, although it may be lost or abrogated by misconduct.
E.g.: a driver's license is a privilege, contingent on meeting certain requirements and passing a test.
The right to life is absolute.
The Great Writ traditionally was confined to freeborn males, and additionally in early times to those qualified to participate in the Witangemot or assembly of the people.
15 posted on
01/19/2007 10:58:45 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
a driver's license is a privilegeYou do know that courts have ruled otherwise don't you.
18 posted on
01/19/2007 11:02:13 AM PST by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: AnAmericanMother
A privilege is contingent on certain duties and responsibilities.
A right is not contingent, although it may be lost or abrogated by misconduct.
E.g.: a driver's license is a privilege, contingent on meeting certain requirements and passing a test.
The right to life is absolute.
If a right, like the right to life, can be forfeited by misconduct, it is not absolute. It seems the right to life is actually a privilege, as it is contingent upon meeting the requirement of not committing certain acts.
To: AnAmericanMother
"The right to life is absolute."
Whoa!
Not if we're talking about American law it's not.
There is no "right to life" at all in American law.
There is an absolute right to abortion for the "health" of the mother, until birth.
That's American law under the American Constitution.
Would that it were not so, but it is so.
28 posted on
01/19/2007 11:38:35 AM PST by
Vicomte13
(Aure entuluva.)
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