First of all, you didn't actually acknowledge any of my question. Why should we care about the constitution? What makes it correct?
because it is the supreme law of the law, if its not followed, your life liberty and property are not safe.........government job is to secure rights.
the constitution setups the federal government[its structure] and gives then only 18 duties, and places restrictions on the federal government from violating the rights of the people.
The states are not limited by the constitution. It doesn't work that way; statutory laws provide increasingly higher restrictions as you get more and more local. That's how it works. A local law can't give you more rights, but they can give you less. The idea that no law should restrict your rights, is ridiculous; that's what a law is.
wrong.... the USSC ruled after the civil war, the states must comply with the bill of rights.
again..... i did not say rights cannot be curtailed, they can, but you must commit a crime( [criminal law] or by an action
which could cause pain/ death destruction of person/ property [like storing propane next to fire source where others can get hurt.) to have them curtailed, by violating the rights of another citiznen.....they cannot be curtail, becuase you just want them to, or government does not like how they use their rights.
Yup, "individual", not "business".
rights as an individual own businesser, then i have rights, they dont disappear becuase i enter business.....i have a right to commerce, right to association, property.
More words from a man I don't respect as anything more than one of countless philosophers of his day. I think his ideas are short sighted, he couldn't have foresaw our state of corporatism. He made a nice beer, though.
All of those rights are individual rights. I have no problem with bigots saying what they believe. I have no problem with porn, or abortion, or any other moral debate. If you don't like porn, don't buy it. If you don't like abortion, don't have one. If you don't like bigots, don't hang out with them. But, that doesn't apply to businesses; In modern society, people are dependent on public accommodation type businesses, in a way that our founding fathers could never have foreseen. We have already created new laws to reflect these changes, the civil rights act is one of them. It's not the nannystate, it doesn't protect you from your own bigotry, it protects you from the discrimination of others.
Whether it's in the constitution is besides the point; it's not a holy scripture or divinely inspired. As libertarians, we need to attack the nannystate, to promote individual rights, not more rights for the businesses (who are not individuals). Do you seriously think that abolishing the civil rights act will promote individual rights?
wrong how can you say..... if you dont like something, dont buy it, dont drink it,
dont hang around...but then
force a person, to associate with another person.
the constitution is the law, your stating we should only follow it when it meets your approval only, and it does not work like that.
civil rights comes from the 14th amendment to the constitution.....in reality it was written for the slave population only, and affirmed by the USSC in 1873 in the slaughterhouse case....
if was written so that STATES, could not discriminate against former slaves...not people or business.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.