rights and principles

i'm not happy about "rights" at all....they are something won
from authority, or enforced by coercive law. i prefer "principles"
(guide-lines ?), that would go along with a sane and non-violent society. e.g. "no
one to have any more authority than anyone else".......for it seems to me a
fundamental error of our day that very inadequate individuals such as
Bush or Blair (etc) have a ridiculous amount of authority and continually
err....this survives from the days of absolute conquest, where a conqueror
had absolute say, and divided it among his followers, who then had to
strike terms with the conquered...if these were to work for them....they (we) gradually won "rights", which are even today in jeopardy, and were
never equality.