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To: GodGunsGuts
What parts of the Amendment do you feel are not absolute?

Freedom of speech?

Freedom of the press?

Free exercise of religion and non establishment of a state religion?

Freedom to peaceably assemble?

Freedom to petition for a redress of grievances?

What qualifications do you feel were put upon these ABSOLUTE rights, granted to us by our Creator and enshrined by our founders in recognition of Natural Law?

391 posted on 08/19/2008 3:22:21 PM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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To: allmendream

Well for one, the modern reading of free exercise/establishment clause of the First Amendment does not comport with the original intent of the founders.


393 posted on 08/19/2008 3:29:06 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: allmendream

You must be busy dusting off all your books written by the ACLU. If you ever get around to responding, I’ll be happy to reengage.


398 posted on 08/19/2008 3:50:11 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: allmendream
What parts of the Amendment do you feel are not absolute?

No right, save for belief, is absolute. It's a philosophical impossibility for a right to be absolute when it infringes on the rights of others.

Freedom of speech?

What if I choose to exercise my freedom of speech to tell your friends, family, employer and local law enforcement that you are a pedophile? If I use my ABSOLUTE right to free speech to fabricate evidence of same?

Freedom of the press?

See above, but with ink.

Free exercise of religion and non establishment of a state religion?

My religion requires that I kill and eat your children. Who are you to oppress me?

Freedom to peaceably assemble?

I think I'd like to get a few thousand guys with Harleys to peaceably assemble on your lawn at four AM. You won't have a problem with that, right?

Freedom to petition for a redress of grievances?

I demand a two-hour meeting with the president to outline my grievances.

What qualifications do you feel were put upon these ABSOLUTE rights, granted to us by our Creator and enshrined by our founders in recognition of Natural Law?

All rights derive from natural law, and are constrained by the rights of others. This is the basic principle behind the social contract, which was a core tenet of the Enlightenment philosophy in which the Founders were steeped and on which they based the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. John Locke was the pre-eminent Founding Grandfather.

452 posted on 08/20/2008 12:06:09 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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