Posted on 12/03/2020 8:24:46 AM PST by WTanner1776
Our rights aren’t some vague, occasionally important idea that the government grants us. Instead, they are a definite concept granted by God. When he created us, he endowed us with the rights of life, liberty, property, and, if understood properly, the right to happiness. Happiness in that context means the ability to go out and pursue your dreams to build something and seek fulfillment.
For that reason, gun rights are human rights. So are free speech rights, even on college campuses. So is your right to go build something without government interference, and then pass it on to your family without worrying about a death tax. Americans have all of those rights because they were granted by God; we should not have to worry about them being stripped away by some incompetent and/or overzealous, power-hungry bureaucrat.
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People need to be reminded that the constitution does not grant rights. Rather, It lists what God given rights the government cannot infringe.
Too bad it doesn’t have one about breathing air unrestricted.
Rand is the man ! ❤️ him !
Remember the beat down Ben Afflack got on the Bill Maher show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
Listen from 2:05 to 2:10 and find out where liberals think our rights come from.
Then ask yourself, why?
:: Too bad it doesn’t have one about breathing air unrestricted. ::
Au contraire.
The 1st Amendments frees you to wear what you deem appropriate.
“The government shall make no law abriding the freedom of speech.”
The government cannot make a law that requires you to wear any article of covering.
Just
Don’t
Comply
Can you imagine someone from the establishment saying this? Say a John Boehner or Paul Ryan?
“People need to be reminded that the constitution does not grant rights. Rather, It lists what God given rights the government cannot infringe.”
It doesn’t grant natural rights. What about the right to vote or the right to a trial by jury? Are they granted by the Constitution or are they natural rights? If they are natural rights, how so?
You’re over thinking it. A jury and voting is something the state creates as applies to how to do its job. And the state gets to apply the rules regarding how they work.
To get to the core - if the constitution guarantees that the government can’t treat some people “special” compared to others, It means if they give citizens the right to vote, they can not take it away from some citizens or give others more voting power (one ballot = 2 votes, or something like that. Same with the right to trial by jury.
We are a country of laws, not men. This means that if being accused of committing a certain crime carries with it the right to a jury trial, you then can get a jury trial, no matter who you are. But the state has the right to say that for a particular crime, a jury trial is not allowed - and that would also apply to everyone equally.
“You’re over thinking it.”
I think other people under think it. They bandy the word “rights” around as if natural or unalienable or inalienable rights were the only type of rights.
The right to vote and the right to a jury trial are created by the “state” and as such I’d say they are Constitutional or legal or civil rights. But they are still rights.
I clarified in a following post.
This is one of those, “break it down to the core principle” things. For example, you don’t have a God given right to drive a car on the freeway. Or create nuclear bombs in your garage.
I clarified in a following post.
This is one of those, “break it down to the core principle” things. For example, you don’t have a God given right to drive a car on the freeway. Or create nuclear bombs in your garage.
However, you DO have the God given right to try! The state just may stop you though, because the constitution does not prevent them from doing so.
Now try exercising your 2A right where some unConstitutional law has been passed and see how fast that Thin Blue Line turns into a bullet to your brain pan.
While the Senator is correct, how do we stop illegitimate government action save by application of equal retaliatory force?
The courts? The voting booth? Uh-huh... That ship never leaves the docks.
I never quite got this argument. If these rights come from God why do we need the government to defend them?
We don't need the government to defend them, we need the government to not infringe upon them.
The Bill of Rights isn't a list isn't a list of rights government gives you. It's a list of rights that the government can't take from you. Think of them as a list of anti-commandments for future governments, the list of "Thou shall not touch these rights".
If they came from God there are a lot of governments around the world that aren't listening.
He didn't just grant those rights to Americans.
Of course He didn't. Most people throughout human history have been slaves, living in servitude to one warlord, chief, king, or whatever. Infinitely more people have been killed by their rulers/governments throughout history than have ever been killed by criminals.
The oppression of rights isn't new. The fact that some thug government doesn't acknowledge your rights doesn't mean they don't exist. You're confusing the denial of human rights with their existence. I can kidnap someone and hold them hostage but that doesn't mean they don't have a right to freedom.
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