Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:01:38 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rights and the Constitution Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000329090138.0086c270@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <200003290343.UAA29263@usr05.primenet.com> References: <20000327221634.A11538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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At 03:43 29-03-2000 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >The U.S. Constitution does not _grant_ rights, >it _acknowledges_ rights. A very important distinction it is! I was just wondering recently (totally independent of present discussion), how many people realize that. Especially in these strange times when many of our supposed representatives are more concerned with symbols (attempting to ammend the Constitution with the ban on burning the flag) than with basic human rights. Yes, rights are rights. Period. For millenia human rights were violated because it was up to the law to dictate what you could or could not do. And in many parts of the world that still is the case. The US Constitution was an important step in recognizing that rights come from human nature, not from the whim of a king (so was Magna Charta and other documents, I am not saying the US Constitution was the first, just that it was an important step). Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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