Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Did Founding Fathers think of Alcohol as a Right?

Driving home, just now, I considered what freedom is, and what it was back in 1776, and whether it included the right to drugs, alcohol, pornography, and prostitution. I wonder if many (or any) writings or comments remain from our Founding Fathers, on this topic. Today, many consider the right to drugs and such to be rights, to be freedoms awarded them by the Founding Fathers. What thought the Founding Fathers, then? Was freedom to them simply the right of self-rule? Yes, there are quotes suggesting limited government, but did limited government, to them, mean alcohol and prostitution should not be infringed upon? Are there any quotes from the period, suggesting how they defined freedom and whether those definitions included freedom to drink and prostitute as one pleased? The Bill of Rights doesn't hardly say government shall make no law abridging the right to prostitute or drink alcohol. Is that simply because those were assumed rights, and no one imagined government would infringe on them?

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