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Subject:
Inalienable Rights
Category: Relationships and Society > Law Asked by: apoythress-ga List Price: $20.00 |
Posted:
17 Mar 2006 12:10 PST
Expires: 29 Apr 2006 18:57 PDT Question ID: 708498 |
We know that the "right to face your accuser" is civil, as it is granted in the US Constitution. My question is, is this same right inalienable? If so, what modern and historical instances/quotations do we have to show it? Did our nation's founders ever write anything regarding the INALIENABLE right to face your accuser, or can we only support it as being civil? |
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Re: Inalienable Rights
From: markvmd-ga on 17 Mar 2006 14:43 PST |
The inalienable rights, as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Thomas Jefferson was strongly influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted by the House of Burgesses on 12 June 1776 when he was writing the first part of the DoI. While the Constitution's main body outlines the framework of our Government, the rights of the people are left to its amendments. These amendments can be changed, repealed, and modified. If Congress wants to grant equal status to a disenfranchised class, it can. If Congress wants to establish a State religion, it can. If Congress wants to ban guns, it can. If Congress wants to pass a law that allows the Preznut to spy on American Citizens, it can. Note that the same Preznut can't just decide to go eavesdropping on Americans on his own volition. In that case, the Preznut should be censured. Or impeached. After all, I am of the opinion that getting a little nookie and fibbing about it is hardly as bad as violating the Law of the Land. I look forward to a delightful analysis of your question by a Researcher. |
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Re: Inalienable Rights
From: irlandes-ga on 17 Mar 2006 16:16 PST |
Getting a little nookie and "fibbing" about it in a court of law while under oath IS violating the law of the land. |
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Re: Inalienable Rights
From: markvmd-ga on 17 Mar 2006 22:37 PST |
So is driving drunk. MADD insists that for every person caught driving drunk, that person has done the same thing 26 times. Hogwash, I say, but then I'm not a mother and I am not drunk. There are obviously different levels of severity of crimes or why would there be different punishments? So what's the appropriate punishment for blatently violating the constitution? Keep in mind telling a white lie to cover up your sexual dalliances isn't unconstitutional, but violating the Fourth (at least) Amemndment is. |
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Re: Inalienable Rights
From: apoythress-ga on 19 Mar 2006 19:59 PST |
It's true enough, the declaration clause does specify life, liberty, pursuit of happiness as being inalienable - but it only specifies those as SOME inalienable rights. You may not that the clause reads, "...All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." In light of this, we are left to assume that certain inalienable rights go un-specified. Consider the fact that the Constitution was written to preserve the inalienable rights in America (or more specifically, to establish justice), and consider that the bill of rights was written mostly by the same group of men who wrote the Constitution. Finally, consider that the amendments to the Constitution are considered an integral part of it; with these things in mind, a right which is established in the fifth amendment could be considered a "just/inalienable" right. Is this an illogical thought? This is where my question applies. Why was the fifth amendment passed? If we can get inside the minds of the men who discerned this right by looking at some of their quotations, we can determine if they believed that it was inalienable, or simply "good". |
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