Re: Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discriminati
There's a difference between writing what you WANT to write...and writing what is AGREED UPON by a great many men...and there were more than a few shouting matches at the Constitutional Convention over what should be in the Constitution.
well glen, here is why your wrong...
Madison was
asked to write the bill of rights
he did it on his own not among other people, he likes to jot things down making notes to myself.
on a small piece of paper he writes the bill of rights, and one thing Madison writes in his 8th amendment is life liberty and property, Madison understands the right to property, without it.....we as a people have no liberty.
so the constitution recognizes the right to property.....even the 14th amendment does later on.
Madison goes on to write about the right of property, and he states clearly.......
This term in its particular application means "that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual."
In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage.
In the former sense,
a man's land, or merchandize, or money is called his property.
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions,
and in the profession and practice dictated by them.
He has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person.
He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them.
In a word, 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.
Where there is an excess of liberty, the effect is the same, tho' from an opposite cause.
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.
so you see glen, without the right of property, liberty would not exist, because everything about a human being is property...the body... the labor, and the objects we obtain from that labor, a persons own words and ideas and how that person runs a profession.