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To: 1010RD

natural rights - Rights given by God and reasonably apparent in the study of the natural order of society.

human rights - Rights apparent in a secular humanist society

civil rights - Rights granted by the civil authorities

Note the absence of God in the latter two and the authority of the last one. One doesn’t need God to have the last kind.


10 posted on 05/30/2011 4:09:36 AM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Excellent post and observations! Our Founding Fathers had it right yet so many continue to strain at gnats while trying to “improve” on concepts that need no such “improvement”.


14 posted on 05/30/2011 4:14:39 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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