It’s not the constitution itself that matters so much, but what it represents. In the United States, individual rights and guarantees are largely enshrined within it, which is why the constitution inevitably becomes the battlefield. People often confuse human rights with individual rights, and that confusion has carved a deep trench of hostility between those who preach one and those who defend the other.
True individual rights—the kind written into the U.S. Constitution—are exceedingly rare. The Bill of Rights may not be perfect (nothing devised by man ever is), but it exists, and that alone makes it a powerful bulwark against the madness of the state. It allows any lone citizen, armed with nothing but the law, to confront and even defeat those who wield the machinery of public force. That’s not idealism—that’s architecture.
Now try that with so-called human rights. You’ll quickly find that they are less a shield than a brochure—a smorgasbord of lofty aspirations, drafted by committees, and largely useless to the individual. They are political promises masquerading as moral imperatives. And when democracy decides to crush them, it can do so with a single vote. Austrians learned this firsthand when mandatory medical treatment was declared legitimate by a democratic majority.That’s much harder to pull off when you’re dealing with true individual rights. They are inconvenient to power, resistant to consensus, and wonderfully stubborn. They are the only meaningful protection humanity has ever had against tyrants—be they kings, committees, or crowds.
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