Question

1. From a positive economic standpoint, where do rights come from? What is the difference between a right and an entitlement? Is healthcare a right? Consider the Bill of Rights, why is it only 10 amendments? Why might the Bill of Rights only cover those 10 topics?

Answer 1

Right is something which a person has and feels should not be taken away from him.On the origin of rights there are 3 different traditional standpoints.The rights from economic standpoint are right to work,right to food,clothing etc,right to education,etc. These rights come from different sources like 1)rights are moral laws and come from God.2)Rights are political laws and are created by government.3)Rights are moral laws which are inborn in the nature of human beings.

Enlightenment is referred as the act of imparting knowledge or understanding to someone ie the state of getting knowledge and understanding.Rights are rules about what the people are allowed according to legal system,social convention as well as by ethical theory.

Health care is a right and not a privilege.The state should do everything to protect the health of the people with the available resources.The US do not have a health care system , it has a health isurance system.

The first 10 amendment to the constitution are together called the Bill of rights as they recount some individual as well as state rights that cannot be isolated by the government.Anti federalists feared that without the Bill of rights, the constitution wil not protect the rights of the people of the states and federal government would become too powerful.10 amendments were made with the intention of prohibiting the powers of the government and granting liberties to the states which they desired ie freedom of speech,religion ,assembly,press .etc

The Bill of rights is the first 10 amendment to the constitution and these amendments point out American rights in relation to the government. These 10 amendments will grant civil rights and liberties to the person like freedom of speech,religion ,assembly,press .etc.