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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
-Al Franken
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I Think The Government Has A Role

Al Franken
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.
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But look what happens when the government gives you rights. when the government gives you rights, unlike when god gives you rights, the government can take them away. when government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.
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Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. a group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. in a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... a group, as such, has no rights.
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The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” this means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.
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There is nothing wrong with describing conservatism as protecting the constitution, protecting all things that limit government. government is the enemy of liberty. government should be very restrained.
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The constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. the liberals don't like that. the democrats are very unhappy. the constitution limits government too much. so they want to rewrite it, have a second bill of rights. so they want a new bill of rights that spells out what government can do instead of a bill of rights that tells government what it can't do.
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