Originally posted by Starlight
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I guess one could argue all law is fiction, since laws on paper, no matter who made them, are not equivalent to reality. However, as far as legal fictions go, recognition by every country in the world is reasonably impressive. In terms of US recognition, the US constitution provides a process for US Senate voting on the ratification of treaties which makes them into a part of US law.
I sure can't take credit for inventing human rights, the major international declaration and affirmation of them in 1948, following the Holocaust, was long before I was born.
I sure can't take credit for inventing human rights, the major international declaration and affirmation of them in 1948, following the Holocaust, was long before I was born.
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