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To: catpuppy
And what is the EU that it should list rights as if it is their creator?

I think you are catching on to what the EU thinks of itself.
17 posted on 06/07/2003 11:42:54 AM PDT by Jason_b
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To: Jason_b
That what it does, it do not admit some divine
power created them and gave them to man.

That would also imply that the EU can change
or take away those rights when its wants to as well.
18 posted on 06/07/2003 12:01:27 PM PDT by Princeliberty
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To: Jason_b
And what is the EU that it should list rights as if it is their creator?

The precedent for this is the concept of rights under medieval feudalism. Rights are something granted by a "lord" to his vassals and dependents. Be it a king to a duke or a baron to his peasants. No notion of equal rights, of course.

The king rules by divine right, but all other rights are created by Man.

This isn't quite the EU formulation, but you can see how their attitiude has its roots here.

Though we may find the concept of natural rights in human nature or the Bible, as a political force in world politics it started with the American Revolution.

21 posted on 06/07/2003 12:31:54 PM PDT by Salman
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