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In reply to the discussion: Is health care such a fundamental right that access to it should be in the constitution? [View all]REP
(21,691 posts)18. That's the Declaration of Independence
This is the Preamble to the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.
This is the Declaration of Independence:
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, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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Is health care such a fundamental right that access to it should be in the constitution? [View all]
CreekDog
Apr 2014
OP
Now, this isn't one of your trap-polls where you do research on those who vote the "wrong" way
Skip Intro
Apr 2014
#1
I'm sure others would like to know too, if this is one of your traps where you encourage DUers
Skip Intro
Apr 2014
#10
So it is one of your poll traps, then. (Desperate deflection is a huge tell). n/t
Skip Intro
Apr 2014
#13
no one's forcing to you post in this thread, post about the poll, post your opinion
CreekDog
Apr 2014
#15
A public service, alerting others of what they could be in for - months and years of
Skip Intro
Apr 2014
#21
I was thinking the same thing; but I don't know whether the words of the Declaration of Independence
LeftishBrit
Apr 2014
#17