All 3 Uses of
natural rights
in
Common Sense
- 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 Intr
- In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.†
Chpt 1. *
- 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:
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(natural rights) rights that are naturally due because of human nature and the natural condition as contrasted to rights given by law