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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (72903)9/30/2009 12:23:22 PM
From: Little Joe4 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 224744
 
Jorie is correct. The founding fathers believed in Natural Rights. i.e. rights that man had in his natural state that came from god. Many of the founding fathers thought it was not necessary to recognize those rights in the constitution and even thought (it seems to me correctly as it turned out) that the enumeration of those rights might limit other rights not mentioned. At any rate the argument that prevailed that is was better to recognize rights in the bill of rights.

The point is that they did not believe the government was conferring rights. They believed that these rights existed and they were simply recognizing them.

Over time the courts have largely rejected this view of the bill of rights and the rights of man, but there is no doubt what the founding fathers thought.

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