otto bahn

You wouldn't understand irony if they fought a Civil War over it:

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit
it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can
exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary'
right to dismember or overthrow it."

-- Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address, March 4, 1861.


Apparently the slaves were also aware of the difference between inalienable
rights and exercising them.

--Tedward