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Article: The United States and human rights?
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
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- August 26, 1995
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Najee Ibodo Zumobe Ingram
Michigan Citizen
08-26-1995
The United States and human rights?.
Under a law enacted July 1988, certain living beings were guaranteed new rights. They could no longer be shackled, they had to be released from their cramped cages, and they could be administered no drugs, and if administered drugs only for the treatment of disease. This was not unfortunately, a law enacted by the U.S. Congress or State Legislature for the protection of prisoners. It was an act of the Swedish Parliament to protect the rights of farm animals.
The U.S. have always considered itself the standard bearers for human rights. This country was founded a belief in individual freedoms, allegedly.
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