Unite for Rights Blog

Everyone has the right to privacy in his or her home, hotel room, vehicle, or vessel and to have interpersonal relations as they choose. Eavesdropping or surveillance of private communications and activities digitally, electronically or otherwise, is forbidden without a court order as part of a criminal investigation. Everyone has a right to access, obtain, and correct information collected about them unless such information is part of a criminal investigation or prosecution. Private information about people such as their travels, purchases or location shall not be collected without a specific written request and grant of permission unless there is a court order as part of a criminal investigation.

Everyone has the right to own, buy, sell, rent or lease property. The government may not take private property except for public use. If it does, the government must pay market price for the property. The government must publish a record showing who owns a piece of property, including major shareholders of the property if it is owned by a business. The public record shall include detailed boundaries, as well as documents showing the sale or change of ownership of the property and any limitations on the property. Everyone engaged in cultural, artistic, or scientific pursuits has the right to protect their intellectual property.

 

Everyone has the right to choose their work and to a living wage, as defined by law, as well as the right to form and join a union and to participate in the activities and programs of a union, including the right to strike and to collective bargaining.

Everyone has the right to shelter, with water, electricity, and sanitary conditions, as defined by law. Every able-bodied person 18 to 60 years old who receives assistance has the responsibility to work on behalf of society at that shelter or elsewhere while receiving assistance.

 

All power to govern emanates from the people through their choice of representatives and not from military position, religion, caste, heredity or any non-elective title or position. Starting at 18 years of age, anyone has the right to run for office and to be elected through a secret ballot. To ensure opportunities for widespread participation in the process and protect against corruption, no elected representative will serve more than 18 years in one position. The government will provide funds and other means to candidates for national office to reach the public, as defined by law. Only individuals, not corporations or other entities, shall be allowed to contribute money or other assets to candidates or ballot measures, but individuals may contribute as a group as long as the amount given by each member of the group is made public. The total annual contribution by any individual, whether it is to one candidate or divided among several candidates and ballot measures, shall not exceed three times the median income for the country in which the person resides.

Everyone has the right to choose and practice their own religious beliefs, including the right to change their religion or to have no religion. Religion and government must remain separate.