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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Message-ID: <bob1.727989714@cos>
- Keywords: abortion
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:21:54 GMT
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- OK, remedial reading time.
-
- "We, the people of the United States (Gosh, I guess that means us)
- in order to form a more perfect union (Hmm?, guess there was something
- wrong with the other one) to establish justice, insure domestic
- tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general
- welfare, ( good things to have, but promote does not mean to
- establish by fiat) and secure the blessings of liberty (guess that
- means being free to do our own thing, as long as we don't trample
- other folks rights in the process), do ordain and establish this
- Constitution for the United States of America. (Aha! now here we
- get down to the details, we're going to tell this government of
- ours exactly what its duties and powers are).
-
- Funny thing is that nowhere in the ensuing articles or amendments
- did we tell them they could establish laws governing abortion.
- I guess that this must be one of the rights we kept for ourselves.
-
- You may not believe, as I do, that this opening sentence is the
- governing factor in what follows. Like many people, you may
- think that it is just a preamble. Just like those Robert Bork
- "constructionists" who would build into the Constitution, things
- that simply are not there. Guess "constructionists" is the right
- label.
-
- Grouch
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