[Lorianne]

Oh brother. You're not bigotted are you?

I did not call "natural rights" unsavory, I was instead referring to the human tendency to be corrupted by power which our Founders understood and wisely feared.

They understood that absolute power corrupts the one weilding it. That is why they set up a system where no individual or small elite group could grab all the power. They understood implicitley that previous "patriarchal" (and I use that word much more broadly than you do) systems depended on the unassured benevolence of the king or the ruling elite, which they wisely did not trust. This is why they set up the balance of power between ruling bodies and wanted a lose federation of states rather than a strong centralized government. This is also why they wisely separated church and state realizing that religions at the time were modeled on strict elite heirachies which demanded absolute allegiance, anathema conceptually to what they wanted to try. (Note, they were not anti-religious, but rather anti-unilateral elite control).

I do not know what you mean by "natural rights" but I assume from your posts you mean male domination. It also wouldn't surprise me in the least if the "natural" dominating class in your retro view is a smaller category than males.

[right2parent]

I do not know what you mean by "natural rights" but I assume from your posts you mean male domination. It also wouldn't surprise me in the least if the "natural" dominating class in your retro view is a smaller category than males.

Please get a clue. Good night.