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To: Roscoe
Millions of people enjoy that right, especially in summer.

It's not a right. They have the right to swim in their own pool. They do not have the right to swim in a public pool. That right does not exist. They do not own that property, thus no such right exists. It is a privilege. If they do own the property, then the government cannot deny them the right to swim there under any circumstances.

Where does the right to vote in public elections come from?

It is derived from our right to chose our own government eluded to in the declaration of Independence - "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

393 posted on 06/15/2002 3:01:01 PM PDT by Demidog
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To: Demidog
They do not have the right to swim in a public pool. That right does not exist.

Sure it does and millions of people exercise it yearly.

[Where does the right to vote in public elections come from?]

It is derived from our right to chose our own government eluded to in the declaration of Independence - "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

We have the right to govern ourselves as a society.

"The catholic principle of republicanism is that every people may establish what form of government they please and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1792.

"The mother principle [is] that 'governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of their people, and execute it.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

"A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

399 posted on 06/15/2002 3:07:51 PM PDT by Roscoe
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