[Morgan_Freeman]

Quote by: Technosoul Nice statement, but you forgot to elaborate about where your Bill Of Rights came from if not from a higher authority such as the government.

Our rights are inherent in us as human beings. They stem from our basic nature as human beings -- as individuals and rational actors. These basic rights are the rights to life, liberty and property. This is sometimes called "natural law".

Quote by: Natural Rights and Natural Law Here follows a definition of natural law in properly scientific terms, value free terms: An act is a violation of natural law if, were a man to commit such an act in a state of nature, (that is to say, in the absence of an orderly and widely accepted method of resolving disputes), a second man, knowing the facts and being a reasonable man, would reasonably conclude that the first man constituted a threat or danger to the second man, his family, or his property, and if a third man, knowing the facts and being a reasonable man, were to observe the second man getting rid of the first man, the third man would not reasonably conclude that the second man constituted a threat or danger to third man, his family, or his property.

Quote from: http://jim.com/rights.html