Row 31122

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And my point is that the ostensible rights that are read into, or for that matter out of, the Constitution, are a **lot** more tenuous and unreliable than the rights which are plainly stated, for obvious reasons rooted in the democratic nature of the US. Rights tend not to come into existence and vanish *ad hoc* based on some legal decision, they do so via Amendments; when and if they do, all that reveals is that they weren't rights to begin with. Again: see abortion, which we both know was never a right in the real sense of the term. And yes, that extends to rights that some people like to claim are plainly stated, like an unrestricted, *carte blanche* right to arms. They key isn't so much what the text says to a spherical observer in a vacuum, so to speak, but what the text says to Americans in general.

Public education is a service, a service that local governments *may* provide, like any other. Claiming it to be a right implies so many ridiculous consequences - the same 14th Amendment argument would apply to every public service, for example, or it being the first positive right in the US\* - that it should be obvious to anyone that such an argument makes no sense.

--- \*: It's a noted feature of the US Constitution that it's reason for existence is to *limit* the federal government, and not to compel it. In recent decades this aspect has become less and less prominent, but it remains a core concept and consideration for interpretation.

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text And my point is that the ostensible rights that are read into, or for that matter out of, the Constitution, are a **lot** more tenuous and unreliable than the rights which are plainly stated, for obvious reasons rooted in the democratic nature of the US. Rights tend not to come into existence and vanish *ad hoc* based on some legal decision, they do so via Amendments; when and if they do, all that reveals is that they weren't rights to begin with. Again: see abortion, which we both know was neve…
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