Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: What does Socialism look like to you? [View all]jody
(26,624 posts)infringement on such rights.
I am really interested in how one can define such things as "right to job" or "right to house" when jobs and houses do not exist in a state of nature.
Such things are privileges or entitlements granted by government using power delegated by We the People but quite distinct from rights that are natural, inherent, and unalienable/inalienable and do not depend upon government.
I encourage you to read the constitutions below contemporaneous with the Declaration of Independence and before our Constitution to understand what shapes my statements.
A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OR STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 28 Sept. 1776
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp
A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE STATE OF VERMONT 8 Jul. 1777
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/vt01.asp