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To: epow

Sounds to me like you’re splitting hairs. If government forbids the exercise of a right then government has effectively rejected that right... just as I stated.


48 posted on 06/27/2008 9:50:09 PM PDT by gpk9 ("Fairness" is the new Constitution and Bill of (no) Rights for America... I mean Amerika.)
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To: gpk9
Sounds to me like you’re splitting hairs.

Perhaps I am. I just wanted to emphasize that an unalienable right doesn't cease to exist just because a government doesn't recognize it as a right and denies it to the people it governs. An inherent human right may become moribund in practical terms due to the people's inability to exercise it in a dictatorial state, but it still exists nonetheless.

51 posted on 06/27/2008 10:46:57 PM PDT by epow (The question is not "Is God on America's side." but "Is America on God's side?")
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