The Lawful Origin Of Human Rights

The world at one time believed that human rights were granted by the government, whether King, Queen, Czar or dictator.

In England in 1215 the unpopular King John was presented with demands from rebel Barons. Threatened with revolt the King agreed to certain rights, to be granted to the Barons at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. To include protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown.

This continued to be a bitter contest until 1297, where it began to be called by the name of The Magna Carta Libertatum the "Great Charter of Freedoms", or Magna Charta. In this document it was attempted to list every single right due mankind to be granted by the Crown.

The Magna Charta was indeed a magnificent document which influenced the formation of the United States as a free and independent nation.

With a very important difference, a revolutionary thought now common among the nations.

In the First Organic Law of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, this idea was voiced, it reads:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . ."

Human rights are not in the possession of ether King or any human potentate, but are the birthright of all, endowed by our Creator, not government.

This shocked the world, the thought that the head of government did not own human rights, to be granted or denied.

We did not need to list every human right, we did not need to demand rights from the government, they are ours by right of being a living human being.

And also that the powers of government are granted to them by the people. The just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.

~ Tony Pritchard

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