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The right to travel? Show me. Urban myths about Constitutional rights and one truth

Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 4 months ago to Government
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The one truth is the government gets to ignore them.

The following are the urban myths of constitutional rights. If you see your favorite go look it up and quote where it's in the Constitution.

Some additions

Presidents right to grant unlimited pardons. There is an exception...
Secret Ballot. Your ballot and your vote is not your own business
Votes cannot be changed by others. "Winner Take ALL?"


The Air Force
Congressional Districts
The Electoral College
Executive Order
Executive Privilege
Freedom of Expression
(Absolute) Freedom of Speech and Press
"From each according to his ability..."
God
Immigration
Impeachment means removal from office
Innocent until proven guilty
It's a free country
Judicial Review
Jury of Peers
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
Marriage
Martial Law
No taxation without representation
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court
"Of the people, by the people, for the people"
Paper Money
Political Parties
Primary Elections
Qualifications for Judges
The right to privacy
The right to travel
The right to vote
The separation of church and state
The Separation of Powers Clause
Slavery
"We hold these truths to be self-evident
Constraints on the people
Education Thanks
Student Rights
The word "democracy"
Abortion Thanks to Rosie23499
Age discrimination
Capitalism
Inalienable

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  • Posted by $ sjatkins 8 years, 4 months ago
    Rights do not come from a Constitution. It says so in the Constitution itself. So this is blather. Rights, true rights come from the nature of human beings and thus what they require to live and thrive. Agreed that many things listed are not true rights or derivable therefrom. But many of the others like the right to travel in fact are.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 4 months ago
      Good...Now enforce your opinion. Good ahead explain how you intend to enforce your opinion. Especially since you just admitted you do not intend to follow the Constitution. Blather is right. Besides that what else do you have?
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      • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 4 months ago
        Where In the Constitution do you find the words Right To Travel? Simple question. The opposite question is where in the Constitution do you find the the right to deny right to travel? Must be in there ....Obama just signed it into law. Come to think of it 'where do you find the words natural or true rights in the Constitution."

        Opinion is not law but then of course we operate under the Patriot Act now. Too many people failed to act relying on opinion versus law which of course... the government didn't bother with.
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  • Posted by james464 8 years, 4 months ago
    If the government defines your right, then they can take it away.

    Rights which are inherent to human beings can only be defined based on the position of origins. Either you believe we are chemicals only and therefore, rights are subjective; or we are created and rights are defined and given by the Creator and thereby immutable.

    That's it...there is no in between.
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    • Posted by $ sjatkins 8 years, 4 months ago
      That is complete nonsense. Rights are based in the nature of human beings, in the reality of what kind of being we are and the characteristic means of survival of that kind of being.

      Rights decreed by some purported Creator are no less subjective and arbitrary than those decreed by a State. People that do not understand this really have no understanding rights or of objectivism.
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        Posted by james464 8 years, 4 months ago
        Why would rights given by a Creator be just as subjective as those decreed by a man? I am not speaking from Objectivism, but pure philosophical thought.

        Objectivism has no corner on me.
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