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France to add green rights to constitution
Reuters ^
| June 26, 2003
Posted on 06/27/2003 9:30:00 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The French cabinet this week backed plans to enshrine the right to a clean environment in the constitution, a step President Jacques Chirac said would raise green safeguards to the level of basic human rights.
The plans would enable officials to take action to stop environmental damage. Chirac said they would make environmental rights equal to France's 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, which is incorporated in the constitution.
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TOPICS: Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: environment; france; greenfrogs; rainbowwarrior; surrendermonkeys
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:30:00 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
I'm glad the President of the United States has no such power. Constitutional amendments require that lots of thought go into them, because the process of ammending the constitution is so arduous. The constitution is not a place for fads.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:32:46 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: presidio9
GO FOR IT! In 10Y France will be a cesspool of Islamism and and economic black hole that every business on the planet will have to avoid in order to stay in business.
(Not that it isn't already)
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:33:20 AM PDT
by
max_rpf
To: Paleo Conservative
Or you could just give up on a legislative branch and let a Supreme Court make law from the bench.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:35:15 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(RUN AL, RUN!!!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Looks like France actually does have a 'living' constituion...
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:35:29 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: presidio9
Nice to know that a peasant in the french countryside has the same rights as the tree outside Chirac's front door.
How collectively insane can one country become as a result of it's political whores?
I know first hand that the majority of the people in the French countryside do not care for their whacky liberal politicians. Good people, bad front men.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:35:34 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Get comfortable with canabalism, in times coming it will be the fare dejour. Sharpton Stew........)
To: presidio9
France takes one more step towards the dustbins of History.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:36:26 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: presidio9
France to add green rights to constitution Kermit will be happy to hear this...
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:37:03 AM PDT
by
Kenton
To: Paleo Conservative
The constitution is not a place for fads. There are(at least) a couple of Justices on the SCOTUS who haven't heard.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:37:14 AM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: farmfriend; madfly
ping
To: presidio9
My suspicion is that this is a UN hatched plan to errode and eventually eliminate private land ownership, being carried out under the cover of "saving our environment" when nothing could be more distant from the truth.
Based on France's positions against Bush and America, you will see a whole lot of UN plans being hatched under the auspices of the French Government. The first shots fired in a froggy/Texan war.
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:40:11 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Get comfortable with canabalism, in times coming it will be the fare dejour. Sharpton Stew........)
To: Kenton
Il n'est pas être facile vert (or something like that)
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posted on
06/27/2003 9:54:29 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Paleo Conservative
I'm glad the President of the United States has no such power. Constitutional amendments require that lots of thought go into them, because the process of ammending the constitution is so arduous. The constitution is not a place for fads.There is the supreme court. They can do anything they want to create new rights.
To: presidio9
Chirac, a conservative If he's conservative, I'd hate to see what this guy calls liberal.
To: martin_fierro
Il n'est pas être facile vert (or something like that) Excuse your French.
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posted on
06/27/2003 10:10:55 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(RUN AL, RUN!!!)
To: theDentist
Didn't the Coneheads take Chirac with them when they went back to the planet Beldar?
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posted on
06/27/2003 10:39:41 AM PDT
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: presidio9
It's either meaningless or dangerous. Just how clean does a person's environment have to be? And how far does a person's environment extend?
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posted on
06/27/2003 10:50:40 AM PDT
by
MattAMiller
(Down with the Mullahs! Peace, freedom, and prosperity for Iran.)
To: presidio9
"This gives environmental rights the same weight as the civil and political rights of 1789"
The slippery slope of giving trees the same rights as humans.
Hmmmm, this is going to be funny watching this unfold.
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posted on
06/27/2003 11:58:22 AM PDT
by
Weimdog
To: presidio9
"At the start of the process, we were faced with an empty glass. Today we have a half-empty glass... That's right keep pissing in that glass Europe.
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posted on
06/27/2003 12:32:24 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Soddom has left the bunker.)
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