tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post1321586570124306513..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Resolving the paradox of the American RevolutionHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-45145576707427129122017-10-23T01:52:06.534-04:002017-10-23T01:52:06.534-04:00Ah, I had just posted this quote from key American...Ah, I had just posted this quote from key American Founder James Wilson [D of I, Constitution, Supreme Court justice] on your other, similar post. Why I adore the Ninth Amendment, that "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."<br /><br />Rights exist before the creation of governments, not as a result of them and their capricious recognition of them.<br /><br /><i>"Man, says Mr. Burke, cannot enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. By an uncivil contradistinguished from a civil state, he must here mean a state of nature: by the rights of this uncivil state, he must mean the rights of nature: and is it possible that natural and civil rights cannot be enjoyed together? Are they really incompatible? <b>Must our rights be removed from the stable foundation of nature, and placed on the precarious and fluctuating basis of human institution?</b> Such seems to be the sentiment of Mr. Burke: and such too seems to have been the sentiment of a much higher authority than Mr. Burke -- Sir William Blackstone."</i>Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com