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Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by kasey_junk on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:16AM (#33356421)
That’s begging the question. If you define rights specifically by enumerating how they are defined in the bill of rights of course the US comes out on top. That’s before your hedge about implementation.

In practice the US performs rather badly when scores on civil liberties.

Here is one methodology https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/Civil-liberties-index?mode=am... but you can find similar results across many others.

Just take our prison population per capita if you want a glaring metric on how poorly we do at freedom.

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Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by tomp on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:36AM (#33356582)
Yeah let's just say that any list that places Canada sixth on a list is very much suspect.

Nothing says "human rights" like criminalising protests, confiscating money, and prohibiting unvaccinated people from leaving the country.

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Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by dsfyu404ed on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:13AM (#33356976)
>In practice the US performs rather badly when scores on civil liberties.

Which IMO is mostly a reflection of a country in which a large subset of the electorate do not really believe in human rights beyond the extent of a useful legal fiction to be quietly ignored in the pursuit of specific outcomes.

If the people had a hardline stance on human rights and civil liberties the government would reflect that.

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