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Provide for the General Welfare 2

Provide for the General Welfare 2 | This Document
GUARANTEES NO ONE
The Right To Infect Anyone Else
With A Potentially Fatal Disease; It Does Guarantee
That The Government Will
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342 views 2 upvotes Made by WRK13 4 years ago in politics
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3 ups, 4y
The constitution was designed TO LIMIT government powers and specifically list things the federal government is not supposed to do . It also list the rights of the people these rights are POSITIVE RIGHTS not NEGATIVE RIGHTS. You have the right to free speech (a positive right) you do not have the right to compel someone to listen to you (A negative right) you have the right to bear arms (a positive right) you do not have the right to compel someone else to bear arms (a negative right) even the federal govt cannot compel you to bear arms. they do under a national emergency have the right to draft you into service but you have the right to conscientiously object and serve in some form without carrying arms. there is not right for the government or any individual to compel you to wear a mask even if you are actually gullible enough to believe that it will somehow magically save the world from the common cold.
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2 ups, 4y
To be clear, you're combining what is effectively assault and voluntary exposure into constitutional framework, which is not how it works.. It rarely even works in modern legal framework either..

You have the right for me not to burn you with a match, but I am however not responsible for you voluntarily placing your hand on the match and burning yourself.
Both have the same result, both are not the same.

The logical way around this is to either not expose yourself to locations/people that you assume are a threat or to account for that issue and protect yourself in accordance with the increased threat.

There is nothing intrinsically (to my knowledge) in the constitution that would allow you to argue that it is constitutional for everyone to agree to your terms and expectations.
0 ups, 4y
PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE not provide for the general welfare. Big difference. They can legally tell us how dangerous covid is. They can advise us to wear masks and to social distance. They cannot force us to do anything.
1 up, 4y
Right so AIDS patients are prohibited from sexual relations by court order?

And in your mind general welfare means what? free handouts from the working class?
0 ups, 4y
Except if you knowingly have HIV in Cal
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This Document GUARANTEES NO ONE The Right To Infect Anyone Else With A Potentially Fatal Disease; It Does Guarantee That The Government Will PROVIDE FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE