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No, Allan, if what I'm saying is true, then the Bill of Rights is a very important document which commits the US to those enumerated rights, thereby creating them.


Char, what the Constitution created was a restricted government. It has been the never ceasing effort of government ever since to reduce the restrictions.

Under our system (as intended, not as practiced) the federal government has only one right (this applies to all branches)--and that is the power to suspend one specific privilege. Aside from that government has no rights only stated and limited powers.

Government creates no rights, it more often works to restrict rights--for the common good of course, just ask them. In point of fact the federal government cannot give anyone a right or rights--for it has none to give or even share.

What the ASP (and those who worship it) refuses to admit is that our system was born in revolution, and formed as a union among sovereign men living in sovereign states. The federal government is a derived government which exists at the pleasure of those who formed it and presume to be represented by it.

Those nations which trace their origin to various kingdoms and principalities operate quite differently as a rule. In Great Britain, for example, all rights rest with government, and the rights of the people are whatever Parliament decides thay might be on a daily basis. (the ASP dream world)

We, of course, broke all ties with all such idiocy in the late Eighteenth Century--obviously some still long for the old ways and old days.



President Reagan summed it up nicely, "Some people go through their entire lives wondering if they made a difference, Marines don't have that problem!!!"