So Clara, it is your contention that our creator(s) did not bestow us with inalienable rights? That government did?
It is my contention that if any creator bestowed any unalienable rights, humans can't take them away. The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence can be taken away by government by due process, therefore either the creator is less powerful than human beings or doesn't exist. The latter is most likely IMHO.
Human rights are granted by the government: That is the recipe for totalitarianism.
Exactly why cons have succeeded under Gingrich's "permanent majority plan" and why oligarchs again strive to insist on their view of their Divine Right to Rule. Of course it is. What prevents it is checks and balances vs the nonsense about "separation of powers" tommyrot.
These comments are completely wrong-headed.
The Founders felt that certain rights were INALIENABLE and that they were derived from mankind's CREATOR. They felt that, while government was meant to be the GUARANTOR of natural rights, government was not the SOURCE.
You really don't see the difference?
The difference doesn't matter because the Constitution didn't recognize any unalienable rights of women, children, Indians or slaves, and here you stand before me inferring that they did. Your idea of a creator is a failure.
You really are a little weak on the Declaration! After claiming the "inalienable" natural rights, the Declaration goes on to say:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.See, when the People proposed and ratified the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments, they were exercising their right to alter our beloved Constitution, and to vindicate those rights previously unprotected.
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