As I go, I am rearranging and even renaming a few of the elements in all this. I hope it will not prove confusing.
This is what we have thus far:
Cardinal Postulate:0 - All men are equally endowed with life.
Because all men are so endowed, we find the
First Corollaries:
0.1 - All men hold equal claims to life
0.2 - No man's claim to life is superior or inferior to that of another
0.3 - A man is born the sole owner of his life
The equal rights of men imply the
Cardinal Principle:1 - All men are equal in their authority with respect to one another.
From this, the
Second Corollary:1.1 - All men are free with respect to one another
By virtue of the equal authority that the universally equal claim to life bestows upon and between all men, we now have basis for the
Cardinal Proscription:-1 - No man may trespass upon or otherwise violate the rightful claims of another.
From these, the following derive and are sustained:
Primary Derivatives:Absolute Nature Of Human Rights
2 - The fundamental nature of a Human Right is that of a claim to property.
2.1 - The Just Rights of men are valid and absolute because there is no extant principle to deny them.
2.2 - A man's right is just and valid IFF it does not violate the Cardinal Proscription.
Relative Nature Of Rights Between Men:
3 - The rights of all men have equal effect as such between them.
3.1 - Taken in groups, the rightful validity and power of the rights of men do not exceed those of the individual man.
3.2 - The just and valid will of a single man may countervail that of any number of others, taken individually or as a group.
Human Rights Are Property Rights
4 - All men are free to acquire property unto their possession to the degree that rightful acts may provide them.
4.1 - The rightful acquisition of property establishes a rightful claim, or "right" to that property.
4.2 - All men are free to keep, use, and dispose of their rightful property as they see fit.
4.3 - No man may assert or exercise a property right over a Free Man without the other's free and non-coerced consent.
4.4 - All men hold the absolute right and authority to defend their just and valid claims against violation at the hands of others
4.5 - No man or group thereof may act against the rightful ac
The Right to Contracts and Agreements
6 - All Free Men retain the right to enter into contracts and other agreements with one another, singly and severally.
7 - Any Man violating the Cardinal Proscription where an articulable and demonstrable loss to another is proven is guilty of having committed a Crime.
7.1 - Any Man having committed a crime loses his status as a Free Man and assumes that of Criminal until such time as he has made his victim whole.
7.2 - Criminals may forfeit some or all of their rights.
Believe it or not, I think that this is the Canon, more or less. I am certain that it will require tuning, but I do believe that what we have here has more or less captured the full essence of what it means to live properly among one's fellows.
We have described the fundamental nature of men's rights and how they relate one to the other. We have captured the single circumscription that exists to limit men's prerogatives and what it means in the most general terms when they violate those limits.
The rest, so far as I can tell, are matters of a secondary and perhaps changeable nature, mainly if not entirely addressing the proper formal responses to criminal acts.
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