Two different things
Pay attention to who gossips about writers' personal lives and peccadillos and who talks about their ideas.
Labels: thought
The Constitution wasn't written as a vehicle to grant us rights. We don't derive our rights from the constitution. Rather, in the minds of the Founders, human rights are inalienable—inseparable—from humans themselves. We are born with rights by simple fact of existence, as defined by John Locke and written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident,' the Founders wrote. Humans are 'endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights....' These rights are clear and obvious, the Founders repeatedly said. They belong to us from birth, as opposed to something the Constitution must hand to us, and are more ancient than any government.
—Thom Hartmann
—Thom Hartmann
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
