Diuretic
Permanently confused
The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man’s right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use; thus the government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of force under objective control.
Not all governments recognise individual rights like ours does, but everything else you describe afterwards is a basic function of government in general.
Incorrect, the US government no longer recognize individual rights. We have become a welfare/warfare state and the only rights that we are allowed to exercise are those that do not yet conflict with that entity.
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Interesting claim. Evidence?