The Planetary Bill of Rights Project

The Planetary Bill of Rights Project is a unique new organization whose goal is to give the entire world its first modern Bill of Rights. People sometimes ask me how this project came about. About 6 years ago, I was thinking about the U.S. Bill of Rights. The founders of this country did a pretty good job, given the context of their times and experiences. They were able to draft a Constitution with a Bill of Rights that have held the United States together for over two hundred years and may hold it together a little longer, but I doubt much longer. They did the best they could with what they had to work with at the time, and considering the political diversity of the people involved.

But I thought, hind sight is 20/20. And looking back on it, with the perspective of how things have evolved and changed over all those years, I felt sure it could be improved upon. I’d been through my own experiences, which had led to my slowly evolving from a liberal of the ‘60’s into an individualist, someone who now felt very strongly that individual rights ( the only legitimate human rights ) should be held to be inalienable and sacrosanct over the mob whims of pure democracy.

So with my 20/20 hindsight, I thought it would be an interesting project to see what could be done to bring the Bill of Rights into a modern context, clarify some things, and enumerate some things that needed enumerating. And why should it be just for those of us here in the United States? Why shouldn’t it be for anyone in the world? For any individual or nation that would be free?