America is where the idea of Individual Rights took hold. The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully—and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives—the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience. Rights as such is a concept that serves as a bridge that connects an individuals personal ethics to a society’s legal and political code which serves to subordinate society to moral law. The current riots in Paris show the problem of an immoral code.
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