Nomination of Kagan Yet Another of Obama’s Poor Choices

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan writes “The Second Amendment confers… an individual right to keep and bear arms.” But she is wrong — government does not grant rights; rights are already inherent to every individual due to man’s nature as a thinking being. Government’s proper job to protect already existing moral rights — the “unalienable rights” spoken of so eloquently in our Declaration of Independence. Our Constitution does not speak of government conferring rights. Rather, it speaks of recognizing rights that already exist: for example, the Second Amendment states in part that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Nothing about government conferring rights there! (Nothing about government conferring rights in the remainder of the Constitution, either.) Since Kagan completely misunderstands this most basic feature of our federal government, she is totally unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Obama’s choice to nominate Kagan is yet another of his numerous poor decisions as president.

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– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

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