<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The Bill of Rights is the greatest secular document in history. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:26 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:04 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">The US government does not have the authority to amend or repeal human rights.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes it does. It also has the authority to establish new human rights, such as freedom from slavery.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">If it asserts that authority in the future, it no longer the US government and is not entitled to the authorities granted to it by the constitution.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, it would remain the US government. De jure arguments aside, there would without question be enough people still supporting the US government even if it turned fascist, that it would remain the de facto US government.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">At that time, there is no professional army, for there is no authority to collect taxes, and no means of paying them.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you really think that none of the professional army would stay on if the US government redefined human rights again? Granted, that whole Civil War issue saw a large chunk of the US's professional army turn against it, but another large chunk continued to serve. Redefining rights to the positive is a more well known example than redefining rights to the negative, though there have arguably been cases where the US Army got involved in police actions of questionable legality, and in those cases things did not end well.</div></div></div>
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