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WDIM

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2. Rights are universal for all humankind.
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 04:24 PM
Feb 2015

The US Constitution was based on the idea of natural rights that exist to all people. The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people. These natural rights exist with or without a Constitution. All the Bill of Rights was meant to do was protect those rights in unequivocal terms that our Goverment can make no laws againsr these right. Also if you read the 9th amendment the enumeration of those rights is not meant to disparage or deny the existence of other natural rights.

The only rights given out in the Constitution is to the Federal Government. It spells out how the fed gov should do its jobs and limits the federal govenrment rights to those enumerated in the constitution. All other rights are reserved to the states and the people.

Of course the tables have turned over the last 250 years and now people perceive the fed gov as the absolute law of the land when in reality sovereignty does not belong to the government. Sovereignty belongs to the people.

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