No, Einstein. He's complaining that the legal procedures weren't followed properly. You jump to a lot of conclusions, dontcha?
"He's complaining that the legal procedures weren't followed properly" which resulted in African Americans gaining citizen rights. I asked him if he was complaining that African Americans gained citizenship rights and instead of stating he was only complaining about the process not the result, he instead gave the one word response of "Yes".
You asked me if I had a problem with black people becoming citizens. I said yes. At the time, I had other things to do, so I'm going to tell you why I don't think blacks should become citizens. There is no Cliff's notes so you will just have to pay attention.
In the Declaration of Independence, it states:
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Of this document the author, Thomas Jefferson, wrote:
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The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man."
Every person, regardless of his station in life (racial, cultural, religious, etc.) has Rights that are
unalienable. John Adams, the second president of the United States said:
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You have Rights antecedent to all earthly governments; Rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights derived from the Great legislator of the Universe."
Unalienable Rights are bestowed upon
every human being, at birth by their Creator (their God, whomever they deem that to be) or however else that mankind originated. The Bill of Rights codified these
unalienable Rights AND, in the Tenth Amendment, the founders said if they forgot anything those Rights were reserved to the state or the people.
Government does not give those Rights and are constitutionally prohibited from interfering with them. They are not subject to a popularity vote. These Rights are known as God given, natural, inherent,
unalienable, and absolute Rights.
Citizenship and the "
right" to vote are more of a privilege than any kind of "
right." But, the government insists on brainwashing people by talking about rights (sic) as if government grants you all your rights. It would be less confusing if we called government created "
rights" privileges . Government does not have the authority to deny anyone their
unalienable Rights.
Well, Americans have become ignorant to their Rights and even they cannot make the distinction. They think that even
unalienable Rights are subject to a popularity vote.The
United States Supreme Court has even decided that they are not co-equals in our system of government, but the superior branch. And they have over-stepped their authority. So I'm going to let you think about this and do Part 2 in a follow up post.