A prescription for tyranny. No, better: a manifesto for tyranny. The inevitable philosophical underpinning of dictatorship.
Compare:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...
One way is the way of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. It inevitably leads to mass murder, when the "political body" which views the right to life as something it "grants" decides to rescind that "grant" for some large subgroup of the population.
The other way is the way of Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Adams. It leads to freedom, prosperity, and pluralism.
Which do you prefer ... Auschwitz, or Philadelphia?
David