| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Downwiththestereotype,)
Im not asking what rights are, Im asking who gives you them.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>If someone has to give them, they're not rights - they're privileges. Rights are inherent.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |