Human rights originate in Nature
"Human rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges: It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect—that of taking rights away.
Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few... They... consequently are instruments of injustice
The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a contract with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
Government's sole purpose is safeguarding the individual and his/her inherent, inalienable rights; each societal institution that does not benefit the nation is illegitimate—especially monarchy and aristocracy."
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HUMAN SYNTHESIS
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Commentary:
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine,
including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is
permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of
its people
Written in 1791, it is just as true today..
Written in 1791, it is just as true today..
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HUMAN SYNTHESIS
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