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To: Roscoe
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.


"Rights aren't rights? Your arguments are always divorced from reality."

Learn to read 'reality' , roscoe. - Again, -- all you prove with these silly retorts is your own duplicity.


293 posted on 10/20/2002 1:21:35 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: tpaine
Jefferson was obviously using the word 'right' in its meaning as a delegated power.

Different rights have different sources. The same point you and Alan previously denied.

Further, Jefferson's quotes are NOT restricted to our federal government's delegated power, but in fact address rights inherent in EVERY nation and society.

"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease." -- Thomas Jefferson

"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

Your cult denies that our nation even has a right to exist.

294 posted on 10/20/2002 1:35:58 PM PDT by Roscoe
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