• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Honest question, which civil rights first originated in America?

    As in, what freedoms and liberties are uniquely American in origin and didn’t instead start with the British / French / Austrians, etc. etc?

    The only one I can think of is for America to be free of British rule, that’s about it.

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      3 days ago

      That’s barking up the wrong tree. Zero freedoms or liberties are uniquely American from the American point of view, because that would undermine the doctrine of Natural Rights.