Does the government provide it? The military? Do we pay for it with taxes? Do we have to earn it?
Or are our liberties the inherent right of all Americans, as our founding fathers believed?
I suspect a lot of people here would fail high school physics.
2007-08-09 06:30:05 · 13 answers · asked by goldspider79 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
According to the constitution the creator or as I like to call Him God.
2007-08-09 06:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Freedom and rights are two different things - 'rights' are a bit broader, freedom can be seen as a right.
The intention of our founding fathers was for the government to exist to protect the rights and freedoms of the people. The government does not grant rights and freedoms, it protects them.
Most of the founding father were christians or deists and believed on some level that human rights were bestowed by God to everyone - in contrast to the old belief in the Divine Right of Kings.
Personally, I believe that human rights are inherent, part of being human, and do not have to be given by a higher power.
2007-08-09 06:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We pay for and therefore government, theorectically, insures we have the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Constitution, which was written in the belief that Liberty is an inherent state of being.
2007-08-09 06:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by outcrop 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As Americans, our rights stem from the Constitution of the United States, and it is our rights which preserve and guarantee our freedoms, thus they are inherent in our being American.
Brian, where in the Constitution does it say the rights come from a creator? Are you thinking of the Declaration of Independence?
2007-08-09 06:41:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our Freedom is endowed by our Creator, enshrined in our Constitution, guarenteed by the Bill of Rights, and protected by the blood, sweat and tears of the finest group of human beings in the world: the US Armed Forces
The Left would have us believe it is the ACLU lawyer that protects our freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the US soldier, sailor, Marine or airman that we are indebted to.
2007-08-09 09:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to John Locke, a favorite of Thomas Jefferson, the right to be free comes from nature or God if you prefer.
What do high school physics have to do with political science and civics?
2007-08-09 06:38:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is our inherent right given to us by our founding faters and protected by the military provided by the government.
2007-08-09 06:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by doxie 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."
- Thomas Jefferson in A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
- The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 1776
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
- Preamble, Constitution of the United States of America.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
- Wendell Phillips
ADDITION:
1 - Liberty is a gift from God.
2 - Governments are established to secure liberty.
3 - The Constitution helps the government of the United States secure the blessing of liberty.
4 - The blessings of freedom must be supported, through fatigue,
5 - and vigilance.
How telling, that some people see fit to give all of the above the thumbs down...why?
2007-08-09 06:33:18 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 12⤊ 2⤋
We don't "get freedom" from ANYWHERE. It's part of being a human being. It is our natural state of being.
It is up to each person, however, to determine whatever actions are necessary to INSURE that freedom.
2007-08-09 06:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I suspect you are a very kind person. The kind that failed high school history.
(Sorry, but that was just too easy. Thanks for the straight line.)
2007-08-09 06:35:35 · answer #10 · answered by Morty Smith C137 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋