SECTION: What is the FCP all about

LEVEL 2 SECTION: What are the principles of the FCP

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...recognize the inalienable, innate, fundamental human rights...

WHAT ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS?

The FCP recognizes the following fundamental human rights:

1. The right to life, from conception to natural death.

Governments have a responsibility to protect the life of each person and each citizen. This is a principle shared by almost all political currents, from left to right, from democracies to monarchies, from socialist to libertarian. 
The legal definition of a "person" has been used in the last thirty years to distort the natural law definition of a "human being", thus creating exceptions (which lives can be disposed of - the unborn, the sick, the old or those who may not have a certain "Quality of life").
The FCP defends life without exceptions.

2. The right to freedom.

Freedom is an important right which qualifies the independence and self determination of human beings with respect to governments, defines the priorities with respect to levels of government (Catholic principle of subsidiarity) and allows for religious liberty (freedom of conscience).

3. The right to own property.

Economist Hernando De Soto, in his study of poverty, found that a fundamental cause of poverty in third world countries is the lack of opportunity which derives from the legal, constitutional right to own property. Informal ownership should be made formal, to allow for the poor to leverage what they own and improve their position in life.
The right to property is recognized by all major religions. For example, it is mentioned in the Catholic Catechism¹.

Please Click Here for the official text of the FCP Principles.

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REFERENCES:

[1] "Right to property", Catholic Catechism, section 2211.