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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. the bill of rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

-Ayn Rand

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The Government Was Set To Protect Man

Ayn Rand

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. the bill of rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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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.

You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. the bill of rights isn't for the prom queen. the bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. the bill of rights is for the least among us. the bill of rights is for minorities. the bill of rights is for those who have minority opinions.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. when unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. it is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the bill of rights was written.

We should remember that the declaration of independence is not merely a historical document. it is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the king of england, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from god. the keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.' religion and god are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.

[t]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. for ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. all property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.

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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