Originally Posted by
Tx_Aggie
As AK doug said, it depends on whether you believe rights are granted by government or inherent to being human, that is, God given or "natural rights."
The idea that Government can grant or remove fundamental rights as it pleases (even through a democratic process) is about as opposed to the concept of Liberty as you can get.
I agree, but...the question was not regarding ethical, moral or philosophical concerns, rather legality.
That it is possible for Amendments to be repealed and, therefore, modified is irrefutable truth.
As I mentioned, whether one would want to live in a country that stripped away God given liberties is another question.
Our Nation was formed with the intent that the will of the people would prevail. If we ever got so screwed up that the overwhelming majority (2/3's) of the population wanted to give up our Essential Liberties, it is probably time to leave.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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