Humans have rights {natural rights}| as persons. Rights allow actions or benefits, such as health, education, opportunity, life, and happiness.
dignity
Rights are about people's interests, as persons, and so are about dignity.
types
Rights can be claims, immunities, freedoms, and authorizations. Claims are rights of people against other people. Duties are what people owe to other people. Immunities cancel duties and claims. Freedoms, such as freedoms of speech, religion, and association, concern only individuals, unless they conflict with others' freedoms. Authorizations are grants to act, for situations where there are no rights or rights are not clear.
summary
Human rights include freedom and opportunity to engage in businesses, associations, or activities that do not abridge others' rights. They include safe and nutritious food. They include safe, clean, and well-designed shelter. They include clean water. They include adequate sanitation. They include clean air. They include public health measures, personal health maintenance, prescription drugs, rehabilitation, mental health care, dental care, and eye care. They include complete and equal educational opportunities. They include equal and quick justice. They include equal employment opportunity. They include association with others for pleasure, business, or other purposes. They include freedom of travel. They include access to all public information channels. They include freedom of residence. They include freedom from crimes against people. They include freedom from interference in private life. They include religious freedom. They include habeas corpus.
All laws' purpose is to protect human rights. No law makes people's rights unequal {equal rights}. All people are aware they have equal rights and what those rights are.
Equal rights {equality, people} are for people actually born, without distinction. Felons and people with quarantinable diseases have diminished rights only as necessary and relative to their felonies and diseases. People can be equal in power, opportunity, resources, legal matters, health, education, welfare, income, freedom, or respect.
society inequality
Political inequality depends on preventing classes, such as the landless, from holding office, voting, or petitioning. Legal inequality prevents making contracts, initiating actions under civil law, or prosecuting. Social inequality is about castes, segregation, discrimination, status, subordination, slavery, or deference. Class inequality is about aristocracy, education, property, wealth, and heredity. Society can choose to have no inequality, prevent inequality, or allow natural inequalities.
Rights {discrimination, rights} are the same no matter sex, race, color, language, age, religion, health, political belief, national origin, social class or status, property, sexual preference, birth circumstances, residence, citizenship, publications, opinions, or morals. No person can abridge another's rights.
People have right to be free {liberty} from most controls.
Group activities {lobbying} must be public.
There should be no title or privileges of nobility {nobility, rights}.
No group has greater power than any combination of two other groups {power distribution}.
People have right to clothing {clothing rights}.
People have right to protection and aid after natural or other disasters {disaster rights}.
People have right to have children {family rights}. Children have right to be free of parents. People have right to divorce. People have right to marriage of equal partners, with no special role for either husband or wife. People have right to choose to marry or not marry. People have right to all sexual information.
People have right to satisfy basic needs for healthful food {food rights}.
People have right to complete medical and health care and preventative maintenance {health care rights} {medical care rights}.
People have right to shelter with sanitary facilities and adequate warmth and coolness {shelter rights}.
People have right to warmth and coolness {warmth and coolness rights}.
People have right to buy and sell property {buying and selling rights}.
People have right to own property, with or without others {ownership rights}.
Government cannot take private property for public use without notice, need, and just compensation {public use rights}.
There should be no hiring discrimination {work rights}. People have right to employment. People have right to work anywhere. People have equal opportunity for all jobs. People have right to refuse to work in unsafe or unhealthful conditions. People have right to safe and healthful jobs. People have right to fair wage or salary and enough pay for basic wants. People have right to social security for disability, retirement, and dependents.
People have right to fair hearings {fair hearing}.
People have right to leave jobs {quitting}.
People have right to retire {retirement}.
There should be no slavery {slavery}, involuntary servitude, indentured service, or child labor.
People have right to vacations and holidays {vacation}.
People have right to reasonable working hours {working hours}.
People have right not to join unions or other work organizations {union rights}.
People have right to organize and form unions {organizing}.
There should be no selling of bodies, parts, or functions {body rights}.
People have control over life {control of life}, to give them hope and power.
People have right to die and ability to delegate authority to terminate life {death rights}.
Fetus has very limited rights {fetus rights}, subordinate to all mother's rights. Unborn people are under mother's complete and total authority, without interference by other people, because fetuses are not yet legal persons.
People have right to life, with no death penalty {life rights}.
People have right to escape sacrifice and punishment for refusal to sacrifice {sacrifice rights}.
People have right of self-defense by any means {self-defense rights}.
People have right to sexual satisfaction through any means not abridging other-people's rights {sex rights}.
People should have freedom of appearance and styles {style rights}.
There should be no torture, no degrading behavior, and no cruel behavior {torture rights}.
Disabled people have right to access {access, disabled} public places.
Disabled people have right to education {education, disabled}.
Disabled people have right to equal treatment {equal treatment, disabled}.
Disabled people have right to medical treatment {medical treatment rights}.
Disabled people have right to normal life {normal life rights}.
There should be no brainwashing {brainwashing}.
There should be no censorship or harassment {censorship right}.
Copyrighting is automatic {copyright right}.
Intentional copyright violation {copyright violation} accrues damages, but unintentional violation does not.
People have right to refuse to disclose sources or information {disclosure, sources}.
There should be no false advertising {false advertising right}.
There should be no false communication with intent to harm {intent to harm}.
There should be no libel or slander {libel, rights} {slander, rights}.
There should be no propaganda {propaganda, politics}.
People have access to all public information {public information rights}.
People have right to assemble peacefully {assembly right}.
People have right of equal access {equal access}, unless it affects safety.
There should be no forced membership in any group {membership rights}.
People have right of religious belief, practice, organization, publicity, assembly, action, and instruction {religion rights}. There should be no coercion.
People have right to petition legislature, executive, and judiciary about grievances {petition right}.
Grievances must be public, officials must act on them in reasonable time, and officials must report results to petitioner {grievance right}.
People have right of asylum from persecution. There should be no exiles. There should be no visas or passports {residence and travel rights}.
There should be no identification papers {identification papers}.
People have right to complete education {education rights}. People have right to easy school access. People have right to access to all cultural events. People have right to complete coverage of all subjects. People have right to free schooling. People have right to equal opportunity. People have right to safe schooling. People have right to qualified and safe teachers.
People have right to choose public school {school choice}.
There should be no cultural-heritage destruction {cultural heritage}.
States do not have rights of persons {state rights}. There should be no martial law, except after disaster and then martial-law removal as soon as possible. All people have equal opportunity to be in government at all levels. There should be no political crimes. All groups in society have representation. Birth or declaration establishes citizenship.
There should be no crimes {crime against state} against states and no treason.
Enforcing laws {enforcement, law} obligating people to states is by withdrawing privileges, not doing other actions.
Representatives must be available to voters {representative rights}. People have right of representation based on district and government unit. Representatives are district residents.
People have right to safety {safety and security}. There should be no police state or police actions. There should be no terrorism, violence, or war.
There should be no deadly weapons {deadly weapons}, except for registered owners.
People have right to privacy of person, effects, and actions {privacy rights}.
Only authorized people can conduct searches and seizures and only after obtaining due authorization {searches rights}.
There should be no surveillance {surveillance}, observation, or harassment.
Elected representatives levy taxes {taxation rights}. Taxes are subject to referendum. All taxes are fair. Only taxes are income taxes, billed to people by sliding percentage.
All trade is free of tariffs, duties, quotas, and protectionist measures. There should be no restraints on commerce, except for health and safety {trade rights}.
There should be fair competition {fair competition}.
There should be fair dealing {fair dealing}.
Military affairs are always under civilian control {military rights}. No soldiers can be on private property or use private property. There should be no military action against residents. No government or leader can force people to serve in military, go to war, or prepare for war. There should be no permanent military and no standing army. Government cannot require people to participate in events organized for or by state.
There should be military conscription or registration {draft, military}.
There should be no bombs, machine guns, bazookas, rockets, atomic weapons, or similar weapons {mass destruction}.
Government cannot require people to perform services {service to state} to state.
People have right to keep and bear small arms, for regulated militias {gun rights}.
Governments register all weapons {weapon registration}.
People have right to vote for, vote against, or abstain {voting rights}.
People have right to vote {suffrage}|.
There should be elections {elections} at regular intervals.
People have right to work for or against voting issues {advocacy}.
All district residents are eligible {eligibility}.
There should be fair campaigning {fair campaigning}.
People have right to receive election and issue notices {notice of election}.
Public voting is by secret ballot {secret ballot}.
Law administration should be fair, impartial, and quick {administration, laws}.
Laws should be fair and impartial {law rights}. Laws have time limits.
People have right to rule of law and equal protection {protection of law} under laws.
People have entitlement to remedies {remedy} for all rights violations.
People have right to contest charge {charge contesting}.
Authorities can only detain people if they make documented cases under oath before judges, with all names public {detention rights}.
People have right to due process of law {due process right}.
There should be no detention for acts declared illegal later {ex post facto right}.
There should be no excessive bail {excessive bail}.
There should be no false accusations {false accusation}.
There should be no false arrest {false arrest} or detention.
People have right to writ of habeas corpus {habeas corpus right}.
Courts and judges are available quickly and impartially {quick justice}.
People have right to quick and fair hearings in courts {quick trial}.
People have right to request detention review {review of detention}.
Appeals are to review procedures, not decisions {appeal right}.
There should be no capital punishment {capital punishment right}.
People have right to retrial {retrial after conviction} if false testimony, unfair jurors, incompetent legal counsel, new evidence, or judicial irregularities affected outcome.
There should be no cruel, degrading, or unusual punishment {unusual punishment}.
States cannot impose worse sentences {worse sentence} after imposing sentences.
Actual damages {actual damages} are estimates by independent evaluators.
There should be no excessive fine {excessive fine}.
Lawyer's fees {fee, lawyer} {lawyer fee} {legal fee} can depend on schedules, not percentages.
Punitive damages are fixed percentages of actual damages {punitive damages right}.
People have right to know all charges {trial rights}. People have right to jury. People have right to public or private trials. People have right to question all witnesses. States cannot try acquitted people again on similar charges.
People have right to expert testimony {expert testimony}.
People have right to impartial trials {impartial trial}.
People have presumption of innocence until proven guilty {innocence until guilty}.
People have right to competent lawyers {legal representation}.
States cannot force people to witness against themselves {self-incrimination}.
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