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Re: Food as a Right
In Article <E26r3C.2rH@plamondon.COM>, robert@plamondon.COM (Robert
Plamondon) wrote:
>In article <aquilla.1200523832F@news.erols.com> aquilla@erols.com (Tracy
Aquilla) writes:
>
>>Nice explanation of your reasoning. I tend to agree with you. The only
>>rights we really have are granted by government. In the USA, your rights are
>>granted under the US Constitution and various supplementary statutes.
>
>Technically, the U.S. Constitution grants no rights at all. It
>recognizes them by denying the government power to infringe upon them.
>This is in line with the concept of limited goverment, which is
>considered to be the wellspring of nothing much.
Read Article I. The very first sentence reads: "All legislative powers
herein granted...". Technically, you're correct, in that Congress
"recognizes" rights as it sees fit, but that power was granted. This is a
silly semantic argument.
Tracy
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