Re: Property and water rights?
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Now I'm not sure I understand the question. Of course she is "allowed" to agree. Based on your knowledge of AC, what mechanism could exist to not allow her to?
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I didnt know of a mechanism, but I had always assumed that there was something that somehow prevented certain rights from ever being questioned.
If a large majority of people feel black people dont deserve rights (such a large majority that it would certainly be economically favourable for the courts to hold this opinion), can courts just decide that black people dont deserve rights?
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Theoretically possible, in the same sense that if everyone in America decides black people don't deserve rights then they can vote to implement that. If everyone else in society decides they don't recognize black people's rights then they probably won't have de facto rights under any system, except a very autocratic one with a sympathetic (to blacks) ruler. What system do you know of that doesn't have this problem?
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