> Everyone should have the rights guaranteed in the US Constitution.
You don't get it. Everyone *does* have them: that's the goddamn point. If the law was what decided these things, there wouldn't be a justification to form this country to begin with. You ain't paid attention to Jefferson except at the ATM. "B-but they made us memorize the Declaration in the fourth grade!" Try fuckin' reading it. The Constitution doesn't "grant" anything. It *can't* give you something you have: it just promises not to fuck it all up.
> They need to have their own peaceful 1776
1776 wasn't peaceful.
> tell their governments they want guaranteed protected rights.
If you have to ask, you have already handed the decision to someone else. "God-given", my ass. "Inalienable", go fuck yourself. You let the people that view the rest of humanity as cattle decide what "rights" means. You've voluntarily waived your humanity. It's disgusting, don't do it.
But, hey, you get to be on a website where you are allowed to say the gamer words. That's what's really important, right?
@p Everyone should have the rights guaranteed in the US Constitution. But that's up to the people in the countries around the world. They need to have their own peaceful 1776 and tell their governments they want guaranteed protected rights.
Freedom isn't free. We had to fight for ours. @freepatriot
You fucking retard. "Endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights" means what, precisely? Did no one get endowed with those rights before? Did God pass along this memo just to some of the people or did George III just not check his mail very often? What does "inalienable" mean? What did it mean when Jefferson said "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference" in his letter to Madison? ( https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0454 ) Franklin's letter to the government of Quebec on freedom of speech? Why do all the goddamn amendments phrase so carefully that the government should not interfere with a right, rather than granting those rights?
You don't understand the philosophical grounding. You can read these men in their own words for free and you haven't. The entire point was that these are the natural rights of men and that they cannot be taken away: by virtue of their humanity, everyone has these rights. If a government violates them, that act of the government is illegitimate: the rights are inalienable. This is the basis, this is the justification for the liberation of the colonies, and you take the version carefully crafted by people that want to move the fundamental rights of all men under the purview of the government so that they can take it if they want. Your ignorance of the reasoning guarantees that you will lose what you have.
Who the fuck is the government and on what grounds can they "grant" me the right to speak?
> Do your research before repling.
The stones on this dipshit. Show me, dipshit, where it is carefully explained that freedom of speech is somehow "granted" by the government. This would mean they have authority over it: they can take it away if they can grant it. You will not find these your assertions on any page before the 20th century. They let you write the Declaration and you say "should be given by the government if people keep asking peacefully" instead of "endowed by their Creator" and we'd have been fucked even sooner.
Here is a free copy of the Federalist Papers. You might find the text of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom enlightening. You have no excuse, you live in a time where you have unprecedented easy access to all of the words written by all of the people that built the society you live in and all you have to do is move your hand a little bit and then look at the goddamn screen. You sit there with your AIslop avatar, the fruit of hours, no doubt, of clicking on the "make me more pictures, robot" and waiting and then saying "ha funny pictuar" when the machine filled the trough again, and you can't be bothered to goddamn read. federalist.txt