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3. Pretty common rhetoric, from the Declaration of independence

Reply to Frustratedlady (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 11, 2016, 09:31 AM

Dec 2016

"That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

The theory is that the Constitution "grants" no rights (God granted them), but merely recognizes them.

Note that the atheistic version of natural or human rights is similar: humans by nature have rights intrinsically, and governments recognize rather than grant them.

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God-given, right? eom Frustratedlady Dec 2016 #1

Pretty common rhetoric, from the Declaration of independence Recursion Dec 2016 #3

Gee, I think that's in the ten commandments. Asshole! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #2