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>You may, without a meeting of the minds, sign away your basic rights according to the courts. You actually cannot sign away your basic rights as contract cann
by EpicEng 8y ago
>You may, without a meeting of the minds, sign away your basic rights according to the courts.
You actually cannot sign away your basic rights as contract cannot supersede state or federal law. You may argue that one's right to litgation _should_ be considered a basic right, but currently it's not.
- makomk 8y agoThe difference between signing away your basic rights and signing away your ability to enforce those rights is basically non-existent.
- kevin_b_er 8y agoWe may weep for the 7th amendment, which guaranteed the right to a trial by jury in disputes, as long having been bypassed and a currently dead amendment. Alexender Hamilton: "The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty." Thomas Jefferson: "Another apprehension is that a majority cannot be induced to adopt the trial by jury; and I consider that as the only anchor, ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of it’s constitution." They tried, but greed is too strong. You've lost the right to a trial by jury. What little bit is left is dead under mandatory binding arbitration.
- EpicEng 8y agoOk, but the supreme court disagrees: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/06/08/the-enforceability-of-employment-arbitration-agreements/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/06/08/the-enforceabilit...
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoRight to litigation is a basic right. It's the 7th amendment.
- EpicEng 8y agoIt's obviously not that simple. I don't like it either, but the supreme Court disagrees with your interpretation.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoThe Supreme Court right now is openly hostile to individual rights. It's unsurprising that they would disagree with me.
- anticensor 8y agoCivil law jurisdictions work around this by making all enacted rights inalienable. This results in problems like compulsory royalty schemes, though.