Since 1982 when Canada adopted the ...

Since 1982 when Canada adopted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, there has been an increasing proneness on the part of Canadians to speak of rights as if they were principles, that is, starting points of moral and political argument. This is a serious vexed question because rights are not principles, if it were not that conclusions.

If a living body makes claim to certain rights, he must be able to carefully demonstrate his claim, and the sole way to do this is to sod them in duties. The reason is that rights and duties are the same reality. They are correlative to undivided another.

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