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Originally Posted by Jerry  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. |
Since the entire notion of rights IS a human construct, a societal convention, to have any meaning and enforceability have alway been and are written. From the Cyrus cylinder to the Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they are all written.