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Beers with our Founding Fathers

belong to everyone. With each right come all responsibilities. The

loss or infringement of one right is the same on all. We individually
and collectively own our rights; it is time we act like it.

It is often asked how one right can be the defense and support
of another. By way of historic example, John Locke addressed this.

In England, even under their 1689 Bill of Rights, the rights were
more to a protected group than the individual. Specifically, rights

were to the parliament, such as their freedom of speech, regular
elections and to petition the crown without reprisal. It did provide

that Protestants could again possess arms for their defense within
the law. Historically, Catholics were allowed to be armed due to the

power and influence of the Catholic Church in politics. This
encouraged John Locke, a popular figure to our Founding Fathers

and revolutionaries, to expand on these ideas for the colonies. It is
also one of the foundations for our Bill of Rights being to the

individual and not a group.
This history of our Country, our Declaration of Independence,

our Constitution and our Bill of Rights is all absolute. They are not
as complex as scholars would lead you to believe. The complexity,

as it exists, has led to their corruption. To fix this corruption is more
than ignoring or amending these sacred documents. We must first

see what is corrupted or adulterated in order to address those
issues. Like the multi-headed hydra, there are many problems and

multiple solutions for each problem. The core to this problem

solving is simple: all persons residing in our Country have the same
rights – they are not granted or revoked by the government. Only
citizens should be privileged to receive unearned entitlements (i.e.

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