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Posted on Feb 07 2012
Mr. John Del Rosario’s discourse on “natural rights” is perplexing since he left many voids that cover this subject matter. Man’s contradictions with nature have been argued and expressed by scholars in all fields of classificatory sciences, and still today we could not as human beings find that absolute and random common perceptual world that we all can agree with.
This subject has intrigued scholars and novice alike since the time of Aristotle and Plato and after centuries of human development. John Locke’s writings on the contract theory of government were a major contributor to the delegates of the last Constitutional Conventional before the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Many will follow new insights on important subjects such as “natural law,” but in this particular situation, it would make sense for Mr. Del Rosario to expand his points, and tell the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands that this is the answer to the issue of landownership rights in the CNMI.
Without a scholarly and thoughtful discourse on the subject, I will dismiss Mr. DelRosario’s points of view on the subject as petty and insignificant. We would acknowledge his thoughts on this matter, but we certainly could not see all interests without him pointing them out for us to understand. John Locke himself said, “Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” If Mr. DelRosario is a bringer of knowledge for the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, I for one would be a serious hearer of what he has to say on this. Let us all begin the discussion because this would work both ways in that “natural laws” may once again influence the minds of the folks in Washington, D.C.
[B]Francisco R. Agulto[/B] [I]Chalan Kanoa, Saipan[/I]
