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To: justshutupandtakeit
Our rights have to be explicitly stated? Are you familiar with the 10th amendment?
83 posted on 01/18/2005 1:54:30 PM PST by Durus
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To: Durus

Certainly I am aware that that amendment has more "rights" stuffed into it than any decent sentence can bear. And that it has been one of the two amendments (along with the nineth) which has played almost no role in constitutional history and that the Country would have not changed one iota without them.

Anyone can claim "rights" and many claim an extensive set. Jesse Jerkson claims we have a "right" to healthcare and affordable housing and any other of a number of "rights." Some of our ancestors claimed a "right" to enslave their fellow humans. Why should I care about such claims?


100 posted on 01/18/2005 2:33:30 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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