Thomas Schafer:
Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3958Doug I'm not here seeking advice or directives from morons who are incapable of reading, comprehending and debating quotations from the US Supreme Court. Because morons such as yourself respond to this Right...
Nobody grants Rights. Rights are Inherently Endowed by your Creation. Government can only Recognize or Violate your Rights.
Our Consbreastution doesn't grant us a thing. Our Consbreastution grants government certain powers and denies government certain other powers. Everything listed in our Consbreastution as a Right is not the "granting" of a Right, but the denial of a power to government. Where the Consbreastution states that our Right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, it is saying government shall not have the power to enact any laws infringing on our Right to keep and bear arms.
In the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Consbreastution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Study it carefully. Note the word "reserved". Reserved to who? To the States respectively, or to the people. If a Power is not delegated to the United States, then that Power is Reserved to either the States (Ky, Ala, Ga, Fla, etc, etc) or to the People (you and me). If that same Power is prohibited by the Consbreastution to the States, then that Power is Reserved ONLY to the People (you and me). This means that ALL Powers flow FROM the people (you and me), who have the Final Reservation of All Powers not delegated by themselves to either the States or the United States.
Consider the Power to use Ordinary Transit for Personal Travel on our Public Highways. Is that Power delegated to the United States? NO. Is that Power prohibited by it to the States? According to the US Supreme Court, YES:
"Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any state is a right secured by the 14th Amendment and by other provisions of the Consbreastution." - Williams v. Fears, 179 U.S.
Therefore, the Power to use Ordinary Transit for Personal Travel on our Public Highways is Reserved to the People.
Your Rights are Inalienable. They can not be taken away. They can ONLY be Violated. The Violation of a Right does not take away that Right. You have the Right to not be struck in the nose. Striking you in the nose does not take that Right away, meaning you can then be freely struck in the nose at will. No. Striking you in the nose ONLY Violates that Right, which can then give cause for the Prosecution of those who would do so.
Your Creation, and therefore your existence grants you your Rights. Being created with Life endows you with the Right to Life. Violating your Right to Life doesn't take away your Right to Life, but only Violates it.
You don't have a Right to healthiness, as Creation does not necessarly endow you with healthiness. Nature could have endowed you with unhealthiness. But, if you are alive, nature DID endow you with Life for what ever amount of time it sees fit, and therefore the Right to that Life during that time.
