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TexasMommaWithAHat

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11. Rights in the purest sense
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 12:56 AM
Feb 2016

are natural rights. You can't take them away except by force.

Speech rights, assembly, press, religion. Right to be secure in one's home (no forceful entry without a warrant, for example). No forceful quartering of soldiers (not that we have to worry about that. ) Right against self incrimination. (You can't be forced by torture, imprisonment, or whatever for failure to incriminate yourself.) Right to private property. Right to self defense. Equality.

You can't take these rights away except by force of one type or another (and I'm sure I'm missing some.)

Obviously, civilized societies declare many other rights for their citizens like education, healthcare, etc., but these rights are paid for by taxation, so if the country goes bankrupt tomorrow, these rights would be in peril, where natural rights shouldn't be.

Peace.




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