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To: koan who wrote (95744)3/25/2009 11:06:58 PM
From: John Metcalf2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 116555
 
"And you want the people who thought denyng the vote to women, and segregating blacks and whites, running around free-lol?"

Yes! I want ALL PEOPLE running around free. If Individual freedom is not pre-eminent, from what logic does any other freedom devolve?

Addenda to my ideas of individual freedom: as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence (not in the Constitution): "All men (people) are endowed by their creator" literally means what it says. "All people" means all races, both genders (and those in between), all lifestyles, all philosophies, all economic circumstances, all social strata.

The application of "All people are endowed by their creator" is philosophical, not political, and that is why I point to the distinction between the Declaration and the Constitution. Constitutional rights only belong to citizens, and are a subset of the philosophical universal rights that Jefferson described.
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