Is there a natural Human Right to be able to support a household on one adult income?
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RedBaron · M
Thomas Jefferson’s eloquence in the Declaration of Independence summed it up well:
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.
We can quibble with certain words as expressed in the social context of 1776 as well as Jefferson and other Founding Fathers being slaveowners, but it clearly says that people have a right to freedom to pursue happiness in whatever form they choose, but not the right to any specific outcome.
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.
We can quibble with certain words as expressed in the social context of 1776 as well as Jefferson and other Founding Fathers being slaveowners, but it clearly says that people have a right to freedom to pursue happiness in whatever form they choose, but not the right to any specific outcome.