Rights vs. Privileges
A right is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as “a power, privilege, (sic) faculty, or demand, inherent in one person and incident upon another … the powers of free action.” Please note that rights are “inherent” in a person. This means that it is physically impossible for rights to be extracted from a person by […]
Person
Legal meaning In Black's Law Dictionary, the term "person" is defined as a human being considered as capable of having rights and of being charged with duties. So we could say that a person is an entity to whom the law ascribes rights and duties. A person, in the context of law, refers to an entity […]
Rights and Duties
For protection U.S. Citizens are directly subject to The Federal Government in the form of allegiance. This arrangement makes them a “Person”, which is why the 14th amendment says “person” instead of “people”. A member of the people can become a person, but a person under the arrangement under the 14th amendment can’t be a […]
Civil Rights
In the 13th amendment, it was declared that slavery and involuntary servitude are unconstitutional, and all slaves were freed from bondage with Private Citizens. However, these freed slaves didn’t have any political status or rights. Given this, the Federal Government passed the 14th amendment and granted them Civil Rights as Federal Citizens. These citizens owe […]
The Bill of Rights Summary
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent […]