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   From: none@none.com   
      
   On 7/3/2015 11:58 AM, Snout@smack.com wrote:   
   > Counter:  "States" are not the arbiter of "rights" that the FEDERAL   
   > constitution grants.  EVERY citizen of a nation under a national   
   > constitution---have identical rights.   
      
   No rights are granted by a constitution, state, federal, or otherwise.   
   I repeat: NO RIGHT ARE GRANTED BY A CONSTITUTION.   
      
   A constitution may recognize or protect rights, but it can't grant them,   
   ever, period.   
      
   ALL* persons in this world, living in any age, epoch or dispensation is   
   BORN with the exact same rights as anyone else.  A person born in China   
   has the exact same rights as I do, born in the USA.   
      
   (*Assuming the person is born normal, without defects or disabilities.)   
      
   A (natural) right is defined as the authority to exercise a (natural)   
   power.  That power comes from nature, as does the authority.  The   
   authority does not come from a constitution, someone else, or from a   
   group of people.  Neither does the power.   
      
   There is no arbiter of rights, as is there is no arbiter of powers.  You   
   have the power to speak, you have the authority to speak (granted by   
   nature), ergo you have the right to speak.  No one has the authority to   
   arbitrate that, not your neighbor, not the mayor, not the governor, not   
   the president, and last and least, not the supreme Court.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)