Re: Human Rights

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From: Tony Buckland
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 00:27

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In article <1992May15.104833.27474@cs.ubc.ca> phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips) writes:
>Sorry, you can't start with everyone's list of personal rights and
>parlay that into a law system or society.

 If by "everyone's list" you mean a list held to be applicable to
 everyone, what you say can't be done is precisely what the founders
 of the United States said, in their Declaration of Independence,
 they were doing ("to secure these rights ... governments are
 instituted ... deriving their just powers from the consent of the
 governed").

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