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The Five Rights of the Individual
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The Five Rights of the Individual Hardback - 2012

by Philip Schuyler

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The US government makes 350 pages of new laws each day, including directives of policy that limit what an individual may do at home alone or with consenting adults. Such laws are intended to make people safer, healthier, or more productive, but they often violate the Five Rights because they sacrifice personal choices to some presumed greater good. Directives of policy may include laws that violate the rights to privacy or free speech; laws restricting abortion or physician-assisted suicide; prohibitions on unhealthy foods, cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs; laws that discriminate against gays; and laws that violate property rights.

Drug prohibition laws have been the most damaging. Over the past 40 years, the US population grew 50 percent while its prison population grew 1,000 percent, due mostly to antidrug laws. There are now two million Americans in jail, half of whom didn't harm, coerce, or defraud anyone. The land of the free has one twentieth of the world's population and one fifth of its prison population. Our incarceration rate is seven times that of European countries. No democracy has ever had such a large percentage of its people behind bars.

Legalization of marijuana and decriminalization of other drugs would free hundreds of thousands of individuals, end prison overcrowding, and save billions of dollars now spent trying to enforce unenforceable laws. There would be less need for spying, wiretapping, and breaking down doors. Americans could stop thinking of the police as the enemy and vice-versa, permitting a renewal of respect for the Five Rights.

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  • Title The Five Rights of the Individual
  • Author Philip Schuyler
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 298
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher iUniverse
  • Publication date 2012-06-06
  • ISBN 9781469782027 / 1469782022
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events

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