Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Americas Right: To Demand Its Sovereignty Be Respected


In the brilliant rocket explosion of its youth, 
this country displayed to an incredulous world 
what greatness was possible to man, 
what happiness was possible on earth. 

~ By Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt Speaking


National Rights

A nation, like any other group, is only a number of individuals and can have no rights other than the rights of its individual citizens. A free nation—a nation that recognizes, respects and protects the individual rights of its citizens—has a right to its territorial integrity, its social system and its form of government. The government of such a nation is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of its citizens and has no rights other than the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific, delimited task (the task of protecting them from physical force, derived from their right of self-defense) . . . .
Such a nation has a right to its sovereignty (derived from the rights of its citizens) and a right to demand that its sovereignty be respected by all other nations.

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - National Rights