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We had a great discussion yesterday on unalienable (should it be inalienable? maybe my version is wrong!) rights. I think we established a list very much like Jefferson's:
Life
No individual has the right of life/death over another. The state is given the right of life/death in very specific circumstances.
Liberty
The right to follow God's laws. Including: freedom of speech, the right of private property
We never got to discuss the pursuit of happiness! (Some individuals were insisting on their right to a break before economics class :)) Do you think this right is Biblical? Are we, as God's people, guaranteed the right to pursue happiness? Does our answer depend on the definition of happiness?
Go forth, think, and debate.
We had a great discussion yesterday on unalienable (should it be inalienable? maybe my version is wrong!) rights. I think we established a list very much like Jefferson's:
Life
No individual has the right of life/death over another. The state is given the right of life/death in very specific circumstances.
Liberty
The right to follow God's laws. Including: freedom of speech, the right of private property
We never got to discuss the pursuit of happiness! (Some individuals were insisting on their right to a break before economics class :)) Do you think this right is Biblical? Are we, as God's people, guaranteed the right to pursue happiness? Does our answer depend on the definition of happiness?
Go forth, think, and debate.
posted by Meg @ 11:50 AM
14 Comments:
At 4:57 PM,
Lemony Snicket said…
So, about the writing assignment: Do we need to footnote outside references in bibliography format, or can we just mention it's name in the text? I have a few things that I don't have a reference for, so I don't know if I should include them in my paper or not. And now for 'the pursuit of happiness.' Jefferson originally wrote that the third right was property, but it was altered because someone who has squandered their property away doesn't have a right to it anymore. But I think he said the pursuit of happiness because one can acquire private property in his pursuit of happiness, and King George was doing all this stuff to hamper the ownership of private property. And the pursuit of happiness is similar to liberty, because liberty means a man's freedom to act and choose (under God, that is), and a man will try to pursue happiness by making choices. So liberty and the pursuit of happiness may be a bit redundant.
Daniel, aka Ignaz Bosendorfer
At 7:44 PM,
Meg said…
Daniel,
It can be troubling to use sources without full information on their origin. Find the title and the author! How credible can a source be if we do not know who wrote it?
However, if you are uncertain about your sources, bring them next week and I'll look them over.
You may EITHER footnote (with the full reference) or write a bibliography.
At 7:51 AM,
Gabriella Reed said…
.....whats a bibliography?
At 7:51 AM,
Gabriella Reed said…
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At 7:55 AM,
Gabriella Reed said…
...whats a bibliography?And what if we get our resource from google or something?Do me and Oee have to do the bibliography too? Where do I find Jefferson's aguements against the king of England?
At 8:37 AM,
Lemony Snicket said…
Thanks.
DJC
At 2:28 PM,
Lemony Snicket said…
-A bibliography is where you list all of your sources.
-Wether or not the pursuit of happiness is an in/unalinable right depends on your deffinition of happiness. God doesn't garintee us a purpetual warm fuzzy feeling, but He does garintee satisfaction if we obey Him.
Sam
At 2:28 PM,
Lemony Snicket said…
PS. Excuse my spelling.
At 2:01 PM,
Gabriella Reed said…
o my goodness i didn't mean for it to repeat itself like that! i thought it wasn't working! oops... well thanks for answering my questions!....um....where do i find the present copy of the D of I that i need to compare the original one to?
At 6:04 AM,
Lemony Snicket said…
Meg,
I got my draft finished. 1000 words didn't go as far as I thought they would, so I didn't need to go into too much detail and therefore didn't need to cite outside references. Thanks for your help.
Heather,
I don't quite remember, but I think the address for the rough draft site is http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara3/ruffdrft.html. If this address doesn't work, try typing in the first part of the address as far as the word "exhibits" and you can find the original Declaration from there.
DJC
At 12:11 PM,
Gabriella Reed said…
Thanks! I think I got it figured out....so what if we go over 750 words?
At 12:52 PM,
Gabriella Reed said…
You know hokw we're supposed to give an example as to why we they made the changes to the D of I? Well what if we don't know why they made the changes? I'm having trouble thinking why they would make the changes to a certain paragraph....so, do I need to think more on it and try to figure something out?
At 7:24 AM,
Gabriella Reed said…
so is it a good or bad thing if we go over the word limit? will we get counted off for it?
At 7:38 AM,
Lemony Snicket said…
As the right to liberty has been defined as the freedom to obey God, the freedom of speech, and the ownership of private property, I believe the pursuit of happiness might have been written to mean the freedom to act in a way one believes will give him some degree of success or happiness. This entails a bit more than just liberty as defined before.
Dan
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