Natural Rights?
Jul 3rd, 2010 by David Anderson
Kagan:
“To be honest with you, I don’t have a view of what are natural rights independent of the Constitution.”
Yes, she sounds mainstream enough for me. Let’s hurry up and confirm her. Who needs natural law?
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Kagan-dodges-and-weaves-on-natural-rights-97608954.html#ixzz0sfOaR6jr
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Kagan-dodges-and-weaves-on-natural-rights-97608954.html#ixzz0sfOaR6jr
This is an interesting discussion on the eve of Independence Day. The Founders believed that the Constitution had to be interpreted in the light of the Declaration. The two go together. The Declaration is our Charter and the Constitution is our governing document. If you look at the Constitution alone you get the letter of the law without the spirit of the law.
That is my view; what is yours?
Posted in Americanism, Supreme Court
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Natural Law
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”………T. Jefferson