Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right - answers to you all

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Mon Apr 1 11:20:08 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>


> Stop right there. I reject liberal rights of property as we have known them.
> I'm a socialist. I think there is no right to private ownership of
> productive assets. The liberal rights I accept are the right to universal
> suffrage, to vote and participate in representativbe govt, and extensive
> civil and political liberties. Those say and imply nothing about what foirm
> propert rights should take, and I think they should be socialist.

================= Ok, and when the majority uses universal suffrage to change property rights to "private" would you have an elite cadre of judges paternalistically overruling them? Or would you set the contitutional bias of the State to prevent majoritarianism on this issue?

Ian



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