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According to the US Declaration of Independence: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
However, considering that the institution of slavery persisted for almost 90 years afterward, there seems to have been a certain amount of doublethink occuring.
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What is rights-in-people?
Rights in people refers to the concept of owning slaves and their labor as property. This used to be indistinguishable from, for example, rights to land.
What did Mohandas Gandhi defend?
Mohandas Gandhi defended the rights of all classes of people. India had an almost insurmountable caste system that kept people poor for generations.
Did Elizabethan men have better rights then Elizibethan women?
They all had the same rights. however women in Elisabethan times were denied their rights as amater of coarse.
What does men are born and remain free and equal in rights mean?
This the first article and basic tenet of the The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen as adopted by the National Assembly of France on August 26, 1789. As with the Declaration of Independence and its "unalienable rights", it means that all people have a natural right to be free and share equal status under law.
Man has onley the rights he can defiene?
Man has only the rights he invents and recognizes to be rights. Remember when the US was founded it was said that all men were created equal but negros and women could not vote.
