NationStates Jolt Archive

Do the people of your nation have inalienable rights? Or do they have privileges that the government can take away whenever it desires?

Unalienable rights, of course.

Unalienable rights, of course.

What do you mean, 'of course'? Why would any government give away so much control over their people?

1.9 billion armed Hattians wouldn't let us take away their rights even if we wanted to. (Gun ownership is compulsory.)

Our nation is a sanctuary to the people persecuted by corrupt governments. We respect people's freedoms, but also keep a careful eye on everyone.

Unalienable rights, of course.

Inalienable. (And I am trying very hard - with some success - to keep down my pedantic/debating streak and drag this into one of those General forum debates that never goes anywhere. :D)

"Of course the people have unalienable rights. The people and the government form a social contract where the government provides the people wish security and rules over them and the people work together to build a stronger state. If the government is not fulfilling its part of the social contract, the people are obligated to rise up. Is that not obvious and is it not even more obvious to the government of Roania that it is the aforementioned rebellion that they are currently experiencing in Altaran?"
Matthew von Pickett
Minister for Foreign Affairs

"The Government exists only as a body to serve the people. When that body no longer represents the people, it is no longer a government. It is a gang, a terrorist group, a corporation seeking only to benefit from the exploitation of it's people.

everything is a privelige.

Privileges. its that simple.

When you can take away someone's ability to talk freely at will, in gives you an aura of fear that allows you to control the public easily, while at the same time leaving the majority of them very free.

"The Government exists only as a body to serve the people. When that body no longer represents the people, it is no longer a government. It is a gang, a terrorist group, a corporation seeking only to benefit from the exploitation of it's people.((OOC: For the record, we resent yet entirely resemble this comment))

Unalienable.

Unalienable, which is protected in the Constitution, which needs a majority in Parliament as well as a referendum to change.

Unalienable rights. People have the choice of what they want to say. The government should be concerned about war and the econ.

Do the people of your nation have inalienable rights? Or do they have privileges that the government can take away whenever it desires?

Rghts. May God yelp ye' who seeketh to take them away.

The people have certain rights when dealing with the military etc., but the Emperor has absolute power and what he says is law. He generaly stays out of the way, but in times of crisis his grip is strong.

Unaeliable rights, of course. It is the duty of the people to make the state as a better place to live - anybody against the civil rights of the state is against the law.

Privileges, everybody has his place. After all, Aelosia is an aristocracy...

Privileges, everybody has his place. After all, Aelosia is an aristocracy...

Everyone has the unalienable right to be undead in Ermor.

DISCLAIMER: This post was made under the solemn impression that this thread is an OOC one, so leave your nukes where they are. Thank you.

Rights? Privileges? HAH! In Gheisterstadt, these things are unheard of. In fact, if we want your opinion, we'll give it to you!

----------
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/gheisterstadt.jpg
The Rogue Nation of Gheisterstadt

"hhhreh. idiot."

Rights? Privileges? HAH! In Gheisterstadt, these things are unheard of. In fact, if we want your opinion, we'll give it to you!

----------
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/gheisterstadt.jpg
The Rogue Nation of Gheisterstadt

"hhhreh. idiot."

My country, the Republic of Kylara, has Civil and Unalienable Rights guaranteed.

Signed:

Lord Admiral Tibbetts
Republic of Kylara