natural rights
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Natural rights knew no race, class or religion.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019
Natural rights, fundamental values, basic principles, etc., are all euphemisms which men use because they don't want to call things by their right names .
From Time Magazine Archive
A few words will explain this: Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
Natural rights were deductions from a fundamental metaphysically demonstrable datum of individual free will, and natural law was an ideal critique of positive law whereby to secure these rights in their integrity.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
Natural rights go before legal rights, and are presupposed to them, as the law of nature before that law which is civil and positive.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
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