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To: TigersEye; philetus
I could point out that that has nothing to do with having rights or not but I doubt you care.

You're both right and wrong.

Everyone has inalienable rights granted by their Creator. Even those in Mexico were granted those right. They came from God, not a piece of paper like the Constitution.

However, our Constitution is one of the few in the world that recognizes the source of rights and attempts to form a federal government intended to possess only extremely limited powers. Powers that are not to be used to violate - but to protect the rights of its citizens.

104 posted on 11/24/2002 7:38:24 PM PST by Spiff
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To: Spiff
I agree with everything you said. So, respectfully, how am I wrong?
106 posted on 11/24/2002 7:48:41 PM PST by TigersEye
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To: Spiff
Everyone has inalienable rights granted by their Creator. Even those in Mexico were granted those right....

However, our Constitution is one of the few in the world that recognizes the source of rights and attempts to form a federal government intended to possess only extremely limited powers. Powers that are not to be used to violate - but to protect the rights of its citizens.

Let's put it this way -- people have indeed been given "inalienable rights" (no pun intended, eh?), however it doesn't exactly given them the right to pull up a chair at your kitchen table, does it? Of course there are those in Mexico who not only believe they have a right to be sitting at YOUR kitchen table -- they want their own bedroom in YOUR house permanantly...

THE big question: Why would Dubya agree to give ANY illegal squatters citizenship??

122 posted on 11/25/2002 3:13:35 PM PST by F16Fighter
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