Universal ethics

[yesdachi]

Would a countries constitution be considered their… Universal Ethics?

[Banquo's Ghost]

Would a countries constitution be considered their… Universal Ethics?

Yes, I believe it would - as long as it was as robust and tested as the US Constitution (rather than the ones that are regulalry ripped up or the product of corrupt committees).

And I would go so far as to say that the US Constitution largely provides a blueprint for Universal Ethics across the international board. Much of International Human Rights Legislation has been informed by it, for example (which is ironic, since many people in the US have a disdain for international human rights law...)

Without the USA, and seminal works such as Le Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen, the world would be a much poorer place in terms of ethical development linked to human rights.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Would a countries constitution be considered their… Universal Ethics?

It would be theoretically possible to have an ethics system only for the political level and skip the social level completely. If so, you could consider things such as very rough constitutions, international treaties and things such as the UN declarations of human rights to be attempts at universal ethics systems. So the answer is probably yes.