All 3 Uses of
natural rights
in
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.†
Chpt Intrnatural rights = rights that are naturally due because of human nature and the natural condition
- In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.†
Chpt 1. *natural right = a right that is naturally due because of human nature and the natural condition
- A government of our own is our natural right: And when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.†
Chpt 3.
Definition:
rights that are naturally due because of human nature and the natural condition as contrasted to rights given by law