Time: Sun Nov 24 19:21:42 1996
To: "dR.DavE" <dr.dave@pobox.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Self-Rule
Cc: 
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At 01:56 PM 11/24/96 +1000, you wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:20:02 -0800 (PST), Bob Tiernan wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Richard P. Burke wrote:
>>
>>> 	Jim, what you have missed is that no rights of any kind can ever
>>> by secured without the rule of law.  Without the rule of law, the the
>>> definition of what "rights" are become subjective.  What happens when
>>> two people sincerely are at odds over what a "right" is?  Only through
>>> the rule of law can rights be objectively defined and protected.
>>
>>Hmmm....the First and Second Amendments are not laws.

They most certainly are laws.
See the Supremacy Clause.
They are not only laws, they
are the supreme laws of the Land!

/s/ Paul Mitchell


>
>In the broadest sense of the term, I believe they are in that they authorize or
>prohibit specific laws and common law.  It may be a matter of semantics.
>
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