> The American perspective is that people have rights just by virtue of existing, and the state can only illegally and immorality interfere with rights that you always possess, unconditionally, no matter what.
Universal human rights isn't just American, it's a bedrock of democracies worldwide and of international law.
Also, the US doesn't say states "only illegally and immorality interfere", but that their core purpose is to actively protect human rights:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...
Universal human rights isn't just American, it's a bedrock of democracies worldwide and of international law.
Also, the US doesn't say states "only illegally and immorality interfere", but that their core purpose is to actively protect human rights:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...