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(347 posts)is America has never applied the US Constitution-Declaration of Independence, because if it had, we would never have had a need for the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1875, 1964, it would never have been necessary in the first place if America enforced the Constitution / Declaration. Under the Declaration of Independence, all men to me would mean ALL, NOT JUST CERTAIN PEOPLE.
American doctrine is hypocritical at the very least.
In the Russian Constitution, Article 2 is laughable,
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Article 2.
Man, his rights and freedoms shall be the supreme value. It shall be a duty of the state to recognize, respect and protect the rights and liberties of man and citizen.
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/ch1.html
Almost about as funny as the US Constitution is when it comes to respecting people's rights.
The Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed,
So which government is the worst at protecting the rights of it's citizens? America? or Russia?
I say Russia presently is worse because of their anti-gay stance. I say Russia for lining people up against walls after stopping their own citizens for no apparent reasoning. Homicide bombers usually don't go home, if that's what they claimed to be stopping and searching people for.