Originally posted by Littlejoe
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Furthermore, one notices immediately some considerable differences. There is no statement of "pursuit of happiness" in the Fourteenth Amendment (it is replaced by property). Furthermore, it actually explicitly contradicts the Declaration of Independence, which claims the rights to be unalienable, whereas the Fourteenth Amendment says one can be deprived by due process of law.
Even if one wants to try to argue that unalienable doesn't actually mean cannot be revoked, as I see some have, one should still ground their argument in the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence.
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