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To: LindyBill who wrote (28157)	2/6/2004 10:48:53 AM
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There's no contradiction between "gun-run" and this statement: There is a right to pursue happiness, if you believe in the Declaration of Independence. The State's right to interfere in agreements between individuals is limited. If the contract in question does not infringe on anyone's rights, the government has no business interfering. You also wrote, Where do we get these "rights?" From some Bearded Old Jew up in a Mystical heaven? Nobody really has any "rights." You have you, and the Universe. And what you can make of it. Such institutions as our Constitution, and our Declaration of Independence, were our founding fathers' instruments for "making something of the Universe," in your terminology, for themselves and for us. To the degree that our founding fathers' notion of the will of "a bearded old Jew" influenced their civic aspirations and designs, our "rights" are not unrelated to Judao/Christian precepts. An important function of our government is to protect our rights. Aren't we lucky that we don't live in South Korea or Myanmar?

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