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Originally Posted by prometeus  OK, but no one abides by natural laws, we abide by written laws that reflect the needs of society. Even the founders saw fit to lay on paper the laws by which the new nation was to be governed. They did not say: "OK, we are independent, lets just abide by the natural laws, because they are the best."
After all natural laws include the survival of the fittest at the expense of the weak. Clearly not something the founding fathers wanted to establish. |
The entire body of Human Rights stands on the premis that humans inherantly posess verious rights by virtue of their existance. This was the basis of the anti slavory argument, which, BTW, is well founded in the DoI.
Your Human Rights do not need to be written down in order to exist.
You're Civil Rights do, but your Human Rights do not.