2020 Report on Unalienable Rights from the Commission of 13 Scholars created by the US Department of State
No Law can legitimize, or make legal, any action by a government, or government actors, that deprives a human of a unalienable Right. Human Rights are inviolate. Violating unalienable Rights, also known as Human Rights, is a crime against Humanity for which governments, and those who act in the name of government, can and must be held accountable. There must be vindication for the deprivation of Human Rights.
NOTE THIS from the Report from our Government for our United States:
The very notion of a human right is that of a right inherent in human beings and not dependent for its existence on the enactment of any state or international institution. Positive law can establish and clarify a state’s enforceable obligation to individuals and to other states. But positive law — whether that of a nation-state or of the international legal order — does not create a human right, nor can its silence or conduct nullify a human right.
The International Law known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes clear that human dignity is inherent: it pertains to human beings solely because they are human beings. It cannot be granted by any authority. It is not created by political life or positive law but is prior to positive law and provides a moral standard for evaluating positive law. And no human life can be stripped of its dignity.
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The Declaration of Independence affirms that the primary task of government is to secure the rights inherent in all persons —America’s founders called them “unalienable rights
The Declaration of Independence proclaims this core conviction, and the Constitution of the United States establishes political institutions to make it a reality . (Any who have read our Texas DOI and Texas Constitution sees the same)
The Declaration also holds it to be a self-evident truth that the first task of political society is to ensure that unalienable rights are respected: “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.” The vindication of unalienable rights is indissolubly linked to political institutions and laws — and the community and culture that sustain them
The International Law known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes clear that human dignity is inherent: it pertains to human beings solely because they are human beings. It cannot be granted by any authority. It is not created by political life or positive law but is prior to positive law and provides a moral standard for evaluating positive law. And no human life can be stripped of its dignity. NOTE: Our Texas DOI used the word “inherent” as well as inalienable in declaring what the government of Texas was to secure for each individual.
The very notion of a human right is that of a right inherent in human beings and not dependent for its existence on the enactment of any state or international institution. Positive law can establish and clarify a state’s enforceable obligation to individuals and to other states. But positive law — whether that of a nation-state or of the international legal order — does not create a human right, nor can its silence or conduct nullify a human right.
As a sovereign act, the United States has formally consented to be bound by certain norms of international human rights law.
Unalienable rights provide a standard by which positive rights and positive law can be judged, while positive rights and positive law make the promise of unalienable rights concrete by giving expression to and instantiating unalienable rights.
from the point of view of the founders, securing unalienable rights is the leading feature of the public interest.
The benefits of property rights, though, are not only pecuniary. Protection of property rights is also central to the effective exercise of positive rights and to the pursuit of happiness in family, community, and worship. Without the ability to maintain control over one’s labor, goods, land, home, and other material possessions, one can neither enjoy individual rights nor can society build a common life. Moreover, the choices we make about what and how to produce, exchange, distribute, and consume can be tightly bound up with the kinds of human beings we wish to become. Not least, the right of private property sustains a sphere generally off limits to government, a sphere in which individuals, their families, and the communities they form can pursue happiness in peace and prosperity.
The credibility of U.S. advocacy for human rights abroad depends on the nation’s vigilance in assuring that all its own citizens enjoy fundamental human rights. With the eyes of the world upon her, America must show the same honest self-examination and efforts at improvement that she expects of others. America’s dedication to unalienable rights — the rights all human beings share — demands no less.What we say in our Concluding Observations also bears special emphasis in this moment: “One of the most important ways in which the United States promotes human rights abroad is by serving as an example of a rights-respecting society where citizens live together under law amid the nation’s great religious, ethnic, and cultural heterogeneity.”