NewZealandAmerican wrote:
Ahh thanks so much BookMan for cleaning up my post and making it look more presentable and sharp. I should have taken a couple min more to make it nice because this is important information for all to see.
So far I think this is the best comparison I have seen written for Open Carry vs Concealed carry
Yay!!! THIS IS ALSO MY 100th post!!!! I love the website and want to thank Mike, John andeveryone here on OCDO for all you do for the fight for FREEDOM, LIBERTY and theIN-ALIENABLE RIGHT to carry a gun in all 50 states without a permit or license! EVEN if the Second Amendment could be repealed that does not change one iota your RIGHT to own and carry a gun PERIOD! :celebrate:lol::monkey
I feel that
I MUST make a correction here as to the use of the word
inalienable vs. unalienable on this point because the difference in the meaning of these two words in very significant and has ramifications far greater than most would realize. First we have the definition of unalienable...the word actually used by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence.
UNALIENABLE;
The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold.
Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of particular provisions in the law forbidding their sale or transfer, as pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life and liberty are UNALIENABLE.
Bouviers Law Dictionary 1856 Edition
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UNALIENABLE; incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred."
Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523:
You can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. All individual's have unalienable rights.
Now let us look at the word inalienable, the word the good Judge uses in his presentation.
INALIENABLE rights: Rights which are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights.
Morrison v. State, Mo. App., 252 S.W.2d 97, 101.
You can surrender, sell or transfer inalienable rights if you consent either actually or constructively. Inalienable rights are not inherent in man and can be alienated by government. Persons have inalienable rights. Most state constitutions recognize only inalienable rights.
Please notice that unalienable rights CANNOT be surrendered because they are inherently given by our creator and thus part of natural law. On the other hand inalienable rights are NOT inherent, and CAN be surrendered by the one who "holds" the rights. It is also stated by definition that inalienable rights can be "alienated" or in other words given or taken away by a government.
When one looks at the difference between these two words one can readily see the very real danger of using the word inalienable when discussing the intentions of our founding fathers. We MUST be careful in the use of words here, fort words do have power and if we allow this simple slip of words to go unchecked the progressives will do their best to twist it against us. They are EVIL and will use anything they deem is "useful" to advance their agenda! We already know that they wish to change history and again I feel it is IMPERATIVE that we present the fact accurately.
So now lets look at the Declaration as it is written..........
"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 to 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."
Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,-'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;' and to 'secure,' not grant or create, these rights, governments are instituted. Obama and the progressives in power wish to change this fact!