Chapter 5

Basic Human Rights

Basic Human Rights

Basic Human Rights

Rights and Needs

Maslow

’s Hierarchy of Human Needs

Responsibilities in Civil Society

Subsidiarity The moral principle that large organizations orgovernments should not interfere with or take over responsibilitiesthat can be administered by individuals and local organizations, but rather should support them, always with a focus on the common good.

Responsibilities in Civil Society

Responsibilities in Civil Society

The Government and Human Rights

The Government and Human Rights

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Letter from Birmingham Jail August, 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Government and Human Rights

The Government and Human Rights

I die the King's good servant, but God's first.

The last words of St. Thomas More

July 6, 1535

Catholic Understanding of Government

Catholic Understanding of Government

Relativism

There’s no such thing as truth!

Catholic Understanding of Government

Politics and Conscience

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Politics and Conscience

Politics and Conscience

Significant issues to consider in a candidate’s position:• Conscience protection for individuals as well as religious institutions to

serve the public in accord with religious values• Social and economic policies that support jobs with good working

conditions and just wages• Comprehensive immigration reform and support of refugee resettlement

for unaccompanied children• The definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman • Opposition to legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide• Respect for life includes rejection of violence and death penalty• Affordable health care for low and moderate income individuals & families• Support for policies to protect vulnerable persons;

prisoner rehabilitation and re–entry programs• Support of “child benefit” as principle for participation

in education programs of their children• Opposition to abortion also includes support for

mothers and children during pregnancy and infancy• Stewardship and care of the earth

for this and future generations