farglebargle
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ORIGINAL: Archer A to the Rights argument from the Declaration of Independance the inalienable rights are not all enummerated, and to assume that every right granted in the Constitution is based on an inalienable right granted by their creator is a fatally flawed assumption. Civil rights are granted by the civil autorities and can be removed when the social contract is violated by the citizen or alien. Legal theory that applies would be contract law, where a contract sets for that the contract does not survive beyond a break. Even the constitution provides that one's Liberty can be taken away after due process. So if your argument that a right cannot be taken away held then The Constitution breaks the idea set forth in the Declaration of Independance. Ammendment 5 "...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." So two of the supposedly inallienable rights can be removed with due process of law. Game Set and Match I expect as long as an INDIVIDUAL enjoys exactly the same privileges as, say , General Electric, then I'd go along with that. Let's say, you're Union Carbide, and you go and 15,000 people by releasing poison into the air. Union Carbide should get the death penalty, shouldn't they? Well, what did happen after Bhopal?
< Message edited by farglebargle -- 4/30/2007 11:03:50 PM >
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