OK.  Just to keep it simple, what were these rights of which you speak and which were those nations.  Have they prospered?  Are they still around?  Because if they are not around, then maybe we should pay attention so our country doesn't experience the same fate.  And then has or had that nation prospered other nations as ours has?  Not conquered or colonized, but prospered because of it's existence.  I promise, I cannot guess of which nations you speak.  So that all may learn from your learnedness.