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To: Abogado
Again, you are making the illogical leap that restrictions on the goverment as enumerated in the Constitution are the source of rights for individuals. Read your own posts. Those are restrictions, not sources. I don't blame you, our education system is a failure...

Instead of cutting and pasting my own comment and letting it stand on it's own merit, you instead use as a crutch the independently meanlingless description, "illogical leap" to describe my comment, unsourced.

I never said that the restriction on the government as enumerated in the Constitution is the source of our rights.

Instead it is the restriction on government as enumerated in the Constitution that is the source of our Constitutional Rights and it is our Constitutional rights that tries to protect our unalieanble rights whose source is the creator or objective reason.

Your understanding of the Constitution and the word "rights" is suspect. You play sematic games with the word "rights" for no logical reason. Are you a libertarian?

Using your logic, the phrase "unalienable right" is redundant.

2,821 posted on 10/20/2002 8:45:17 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
To simplify, there are no Constitutional rights. There are only Constitutional protected rights. The Constitution is drafted to protect preexisting rights. The reason this is important is that following the logic that some rights are created by the Constitution allows tyrants the power to restrict or remove those rights. I.e. by your argument, the representatives are placed in a power position superior to the Constitution and can thus alter individual rights. All sections you have quoted as a source of individual rights are only restrictions on goverment's interference with individual rights and/or policies for setting up the goverment - not the source of indiduial rights for the average citizen. Again, semantics aside, show me the section(s) and paragraph(s) whereby the U.S. Constitution creates individual rights for citizens of this country.
2,837 posted on 10/20/2002 11:48:28 AM PDT by Abogado
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