So you find 1,452 “polls” a bit of a challenge to read through?
The “List all Polls” now has a category type that you can only select one type of poll (“Polls about food”, “Polls about Obama”) to keep the list to a few hundred at a time. :)
It will take a day or two to sort them all out – once the lists are shorter, I may turn some of the “dead” polls back on.
Poll #127 from September 1, 2008 asked “Where do inalienable rights come from?” Glenn Beck has finally arrived at the important question. There is no more important question about the future of the country – if you can’t accept the answer that The Creator spoke to Thomas Jefferson and whispered an authoritative list, what is the next best answer? Europeans and the U.N. have answers they would be glad to impose.
Art, give this a few weeks to simmer, then take a poll to see how well it is received. No charge. Thanks.
If at one time illegals were termed aliens, does that mean “inalienable rights” must be defined as rights given to legal citizens? But I digress ….
Back to the subject – You can use the term “Creator” instead of God because it is more Politically Correct.
They are trying to remove “In God we trust” from the coins because of separation of church and state, right?
Unalienable means something that you can’t have taken away or can’t give up or surrender.
(Inalienable is a right you have that you can sell)
So that leaves a pretty direct decision about what you believe – either unalienable rights come from the Creator and every human has them, or they are a creation of Government that apply only to people the government designates.
The concept of only some men being “free” (Article I, section 2) in the Constitution (prior to the Civil War) and the treatment of the native populations point strongly to the latter, and that the Founding Fathers considered the “men” to whom The Creator gave those rights were not talking about universal suffrage. ( It’s worth pointing out that Thomas Jefferson did not write the Constitution). In most states, only landowners had the right to vote until the middle 1800s. Women didn’t get a guarantee of a right to vote until 40 years after former slaves had the right.
The Federal Government had no immigration laws prior to 1875. The first laws were anti-Chinese laws as a result of the immigrant labor that had been brought in to build the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s.
The first comprehensive limits on immigration was a result of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921., passed a month after Warren G Harding replaced Woodrow Wilson.