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>The US government doesn't grant any rights. We already have all of them at birth. What legal document defines "all of them" or what is not a right you have ?
by simion314 3y ago
>The US government doesn't grant any rights. We already have all of them at birth.
What legal document defines "all of them" or what is not a right you have ?
- withinboredom 3y agoI think you totally missed the point. You are born with the rights to be President of the US, but the constitution takes it away if you aren't born a US citizen. Before the constitution did that, literally anyone could (all the first presidents of the US weren't born US citizens, for example). Any right you can imagine, you are born with them. Then some legal document either affirms them, removes them, or ignores them.
- sjtgraham 3y agoThat's wrong. The constitution says any natural born US citizen or any person who was a citizen at the time of ratification of the Constitution is eligible to be POTUS.
- withinboredom 3y agoI think you just proved my point.
- simion314 3y agoSo I am born with the right for privacy and a company that would track my internet surfing is abusing my rights? Unless there is a law that will grant this companies the right to track? Something feels weird, there is no list of all human rights? so is there a right to free internet and a free phone? How can I check if that right exists or not ?
- withinboredom 3y agoAll those rights exist, even the right to kill someone exists. We write laws to affirm or deny them. For example, a law may be written to deny the right to kill, except in very specific circumstances (self-defense, war, executions, etc). You have the right to privacy and the EU affirms that, some US states affirm it as well.