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Originally posted by TheoOne
How did you come across it?
You better not be a terrorist.........I sure wouldn't wanna see a terrorist surfing on ATS!
Originally posted by C0le
[I'm sorry but you are simply wrong, the Constitution was indeed written in regards to the states as the states are the only thing which could be ensured and protected by it at the time, All men ARE created equal and are entitled to certain unalienable rights, rather or not the lands they live in allow them those rights isn't the issue the issue.
For us to say one thing in this land, and do another in another land, is hypocritical and unAmerican.
Human rights are sacred not only in this land but all lands, if its illegal to torture HERE then we cant go torture someone THERE because its not illegal..
If its wrong HERE its wrong THERE simple as that, you cant skate around it or you are a hypocrite who thinks you are BETTER then someone else.
Sholdl others be entitled to rights that are American such as voting for a leader, or financial assistance, or citizenship? no not unless they become citizens
But they are entitled to the same human rights as we are.
[edit on 27-11-2007 by C0le]
Originally posted by geemony
It was written for the citizens of America at the time and meant to be a living document changed over time to meet the needs of the times.
Originally posted by C0le
Um let me give you a little lesson here, First of all, all men are created equal endowed with certain unalienable rights
Our Constitution protects BIRTH RIGHTS, not American rights.
Originally posted by Astyanax
Birthright? What birthright?
Originally posted by C0le
Um let me give you a little lesson here, First of all, all men are created equal endowed with certain unalienable rights
It would be lovely if this were true, but it isn't. Men are not 'created', they are born. They are manifestly not born equal - we all have different talents, advantages, handicaps, etc., and only a fool would suggest that the sum total of these differences must somehow average out to equality. And men are certainly not born with rights, unless they are born into a social group that has obtained and confers such rights upon its members.
And what about women? Your post seems to ignore them completely.
There are no birthrights, except those defined by law.
Originally posted by C0le
Don't start some gender bs in this thread yo know what the terms mean.
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Come to my door and tell me different and this free man will demonstrate what free men are capable of.
Originally posted by Astyanax
Do you believe men and women are equal?
I await your reply with great interest.
Originally posted by C0le
Originally posted by Astyanax
Do you believe men and women are equal?
Its a loaded question....
Yes, they are equal concerning the rights of free people.
I've made no statements which would reflect any negativity towards the other gender.
YOU HAVE.
Originally posted by FewWorldOrder
What?, you are going to report a possible terrorist website to the CIA, which happens to be the largest terrorist organization on the planet.
Hmmm...,
Originally posted by C0le
First this is a "theory"
Second, what part of it needs changed to meet the needs of soceity?
Free speech? so i guess we can change what allowed and whats not base don what the majority wants?
The right to trial and habeas corpus? should this be removed because the majority may not like it?
The right to defend your life? should this be removed because the majority doesn't like it?
Its a constant document thats timeless, because freedom is timeless, man have and always will have the rights to Say, Do, Own, and believe whatever he wants so long as he violates no one else's rights, No man, No majority, And no government can change this, that is freedom, and that is what the Constitution was intended to protect.
Originally posted by Ironclad
And you know what else...?
If the US & GB & their allies did pull out & leave the Islamic world alone, you think theys stop crashing jets into your buildings or blowing up our night clubs...?
Originally posted by C0le
Its a constant document thats timeless, because freedom is timeless, man have and always will have the rights to Say, Do, Own, and believe whatever he wants so long as he violates no one else's rights, No man, No majority, And no government can change this, that is freedom, and that is what the Constitution was intended to protect.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
Alexander Tyler
"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."
Reference: Original Intent, Barton (338); original The Papers of John Adams, Taylor, ed., vol. 1 (83)
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
Reference: Original Intent, Barton (335); original The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 6 (484)
"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."
Reference: The Works of Fisher Ames, W.B. Allen, ed., vol. 1 (546)
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 10 (81)
"It has been a spectacle displaying to the highest advantage of republican government to behold the most and the least wealthy of our citizens standing in the same ranks as private soldiers, preeminently distinguished by being the army of the Constitution..." President George Washington
"But it will be said, it is easier to find faults than to amend them. I do not think their amendment so difficult as is pretended. Only lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people. If experience be called for, appeal to that of our fifteen or twenty governments for forty years, and show me where the people have done half the mischief in these forty years, that a single despot would have done in a single year; or show half the riots and rebellions, the crimes and the punishments, which have taken place in any single nation, under kingly government, during the same period. The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision of our constitution, and see if it hangs directly on the will of the people." Thomas Jefferson
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." George Washington
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." Thomas Jefferson