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- From: Craig.Presson@f32.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Craig Presson)
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- Subject: Re: Rights
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:29:31 CST
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- Steve Crooks quotes the Big Guy:
- >> "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
- ...
- >> -- Thomas Jefferson
- KP> The point being that, in spite of the fact that our Creator
- |> endowed us with these rights, the "governments...instituted
- |> among men" are required to "secure these rights". They are
- |> therefore a priviledge we enjoy thanks to the Government ...
- *BZZZZZZZT* Exactly backwards, but thanks for playing.
- Jefferson was pointing out that _rights_ precede, and should not
- be usurped by, government. You cannot make a privilege out of a
- right and still call it a right. That is what "inalienable" means.
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