No bearing on the false and pernicious claim that our nation has no rights? Read 'em again.
"Any free nation has a right to punish those who have done them an injury." --Thomas Jefferson
"Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will." --Thomas Jefferson
Word games roscoe. - Jefferson was obviously using the word 'right' in its meaning as a delegated power. We the people have delegated those powers to our nation in our constitution.
- And addressing Old Tom's second quote, I doubt we could change our guranteed republican form of government without far more than a simple amendment. Such change would be revolutionary.
- Your hoped for communitarian state, for instance, - will never become a reality.
Nations have no rights, they have powers, delegated to them by their citizens.
2. Nations have no rights, they have powers, delegated to them by their citizens.
Nice example of tail chasing, tpaine.