Ray Saintonge writes

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Trying to cite the Declaration of Independence as the basis for your legal defense in a criminal case -- "Hey, I was just exercising my right to resist a bad king!" -- is a good way to guarantee going to jail.

So much for the right to bear arms! :-)

Oh, the Second Amendment can be invoked, sometimes even successfully, these days. But remember that's in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Anthony was citing the Declaration of Independence, incorrectly, as the basis of the American legal system. Actually, the Constitution is the basis for that.

Incidentally, the Constitution does not guarantee either rights in copyright generally, or rights of attribution specifically. What it does do specifically is allow the Congress to *create* such rights -- a notion that natural-rights copyright theorists can't quite explain.

--Mike