In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.