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Our founding fathers knew this which is why they wrote life liberty and happiness (which was originally property) into the constitution but not many other so called personal rights. the liberal may value personal rights more but the founders of this country did not and they did not design it with liberal values."As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."-- James MadisonRegarding the liberal devaluation of economic rights:"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."-- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
Our founding fathers knew this which is why they wrote life liberty and happiness (which was originally property) into the constitution but not many other so called personal rights. the liberal may value personal rights more but the founders of this country did not and they did not design it with liberal values.
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
-- James Madison
Regarding the liberal devaluation of economic rights:
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
