Modern statelessness strips rights more radically than medieval outlawry ever did

Evidence

The Rights of Man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable—even in countries whose constitutions were based upon them—whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state. To this fact, disturbing enough in itself, one must add the confusion created by the many recent attempts to frame a new bill of human rights, which have demonstrated that no one seems able to define with any assurance what these general human rights, as distinguished from the rights of citizens, really are. Although everyone seems to agree that the plight of these people consists precisely in their loss of the Rights of Man, no one seems to know which rights they lost when they lost these human rights. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality; Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government; Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714

Related

• Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government (similarity 0.92)
• Complete rightlessness is created before the right to live is threatened (similarity 0.90)
• Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state (similarity 0.90)
• The legal order presupposes every person must belong to some deportable territory (similarity 0.87)
• Human-rights advocacy aimed at individuals fails against mass statelessness and discredits itself. (similarity 0.87)
• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty (similarity 0.86)
• Loss of national rights and human rights are experienced as identical by the stateless. (similarity 0.85)
• Human rights are only protected in practice by one’s own sovereign state. (similarity 0.85)
• Stateless people exposed the myth that older nations protected human rights inherently (similarity 0.83)
• The Rights of Man were only ever enforced as national rights, not universal ones (similarity 0.83)
• Loss of human rights reduces persons to insignificant bare uniqueness (similarity 0.82)
• The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality (similarity 0.81)
• Statelessness means falling outside the international legal web that protects citizens (similarity 0.80)
• Human rights are actually citizens’ rights that can be lost without producing absolute rightlessness. (similarity 0.80)
• Eighteenth-century human rights presumed validity for a solitary individual, independent of community. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state #expands (0.90) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714
• Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government #expands (0.85)