From WSJopinion: America’s Founders defined unalienable rights as including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A moral foreign policy should be grounded in this conception of human rights, writes SecPompeo.
On June 27, 2019, after much consternation among Democrats, the House voted to pass a $4.6 billion border bill to provide humanitarian aid to the crisis stricken border. Image: APAmerica’s Founders defined unalienable rights as including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” They designed the Constitution to protect individual dignity and freedom. A moral foreign policy should be grounded in this conception of human rights.
Yet after the Cold War ended, many human-rights advocates turned their energy to new categories of rights. These rights often sound noble and just. But when politicians and bureaucrats create new rights, they blur the distinction between unalienable rights and ad hoc rights...
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