Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 01, 2013

hear, hear!!!

Ugh, I hate it when JJ does the strip like this….it’s boring and I just skip past it for the entire week that he usually goes on with it.

To tell you the truth, this the first time I’ve actually thought that phrase through…..And I taught American history for many years……Yeah, what are our OTHER unalienable rights? Besides sleeping in on Saturday……The pursuit of happiness should cover most of my needs though……

The founders knew that if those three were protected, then the rest would be also, whatever they may be. Our problem is that in trying to add to the list we are destroying the first three.

I’d like to hear more about Arlo’s bandage.

Did he have a shaving issue this morning?

Do our “rights” even matter today? 1st A rights are negated with political correctness. 2A rights are under attack. What next?

I think some of you are confusing the Declaration of Independence (an important historical document) with the Constitution (real law).

Yea Arlo!!!!

Is Arlo a teacher? I never knew, but it works.

Nice to hear..Happy Independence Day and Canada Day..@scooter_1977 A stay in North Korea or Iran might do you well.

Now Arlo needs to explain what a “right” is and the difference between a “right” and a “want”.

If that is a band-aid on Arlo’s neck, did he (A) cut himself shaving, (B) receive a hickey from Janis, © get scratched by the cat or (D) none of the above.

Arlo doesn’t need to explain what a ‘right’ is. He is putting the question to us: do we care about the phrase “among these” enough to ask what it means? To discuss it, it is necessary to distinguish “rights” from “wants” from “need” from “desires” – beginning with consideration of how we consider “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to be rights to begin with and what each implies. Arlo has tossed the ball into the reader’s court. Of course, there’s always tomorrow’s strip – this may be an entire week in light of Independence Day.

Yes, I, too, would like to know about the bandage.

Old Prof., the Declaration is more than an historical document. It is the American Manifesto. No, it is not real law, but its principles underlie the reasons for our existence.

Hey old professor, the Constitution was enacted to secure in reality the ideas propounded in the Declaration.. . . .

You gotta fight for your right to party. – The Beastie Boys

What’s on his neck in panel 2??

As the government grows, our “inalienable rights” become mere license, revocable by the government.

Gotta love the Lincoln quote.

Bring it on, I’m listening!

Constitution is basis for government structure in the United States. Declaration of Independence originally was the statement for why we wanted to be an free and independent nation, but to me has always been the ideal we should be striving to achieve as a free nation.which brings me to the words that immediately follow Arlo’s quote of the day:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

Since just about everyone is mad at some aspect of the government right now, we sure have come a long way….

@Ken M: “The Founders intended for our system of government to pass and enforce laws that protect us from each other, not from ourselves.” Actually, the Founders intended the Constitution and the laws derived therefrom to protect us from the government.

we need the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, and fewer gov. people telling us how to live.

The equivalent section of the Constitution is the 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” The Supreme Court has held in the past that the 10th Amendment protects the right to privacy, among others.-Cougar :{)

Tom from NC: Continuing: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

OK everyone…Rights are something that a person has that doesn’t cost me anything.Entitlements are different… they require money out of my pocket and are therefore NOT rights.