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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (17646)	1/30/2002 4:25:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If you believe in inalienable rights (as the Founders did, and as I do) then those rights cannot be taken away. You may be crushed hopelessly into the mud, you may have no practical way to exercise those rights, but they cannot be taken away. That, I think, is the greatest thing about being an American. But, those rights belong to all mankind because they derive from the Creator. You, I think, are talking about rights which are guaranteed by the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Those rights may or may not derive from the Creator, but they are enforceable in a court of law. The bit about inalienable rights is in the Declaration of Independence, which was a philosophical expression of belief which is not binding in a court of law. The primary author of the Declaration of Independence, as we all know, was Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves, who apparently did not have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Go figure.