To: Jack Black
This tries to emulate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but it doesn't even come close to their simple, elegant, yet incredibly precise language.
24 posted on
06/07/2003 4:42:35 PM PDT by
clikker
To: clikker
What a tedious laundry list of entitlements. In the end there is only one natural right: property. Everything else is derived from that. Your right to property in your person and in the effects of your personality says that says that you have a right of free speech, freedom from physical harm, and the right to keep what you've created/earned via voluntary (contractual) agreements. And it's an individual right. A "collective" right is one that can be trumped by the convenience of whoever purports to speak for that "collective".
That one essential individual right that best guarantees all personal freedoms, Property, (what EU calls Article 17), sounds like the most ambiguous and tenuous of the whole lot. It's just whatever the General Interest allows you to keep. Over two hundred years old and the US Bill of Rights is the unrivaled champion of freedom.
26 posted on
06/07/2003 6:44:15 PM PDT by
kcar
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