A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
If one man owe another a debt, and refuse to pay it, the creditor has a natural right to seize sufficient property of the debtor, wherever he can find it, to satisfy the debt.
If one man commit a trespass upon the person, property or character of another, the injured party has a natural right, either to chastise the aggressor, or to take compensation for the injury out of his property.
But the child, the legatee, or creditor, takes it not by natural right, but by a law of the society of which he is a member, and to which he is subject.
Then, no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him.
Every nation has of natural right, entirely and exclusively, all the jurisdiction which may be rightfully exercised in the territory it occupies.
The property qualification for suffrage is, to my mind, an invasion of natural right, which elevates mere property to an equality with life and personal liberty, and it ought never to be imposed.
If I have a right to a thing after I have gotten it, I have a natural right to the means necessary for getting it.
If there be no God, if there be no difference between right and wrong, if there be no moral law in the universe, then indeed would men possess a natural right to do mischief or to act as they please.
Now mark the principle on which this most wonderful argument is based: "If I have a right to a thing after I have gotten it, I have a natural right to the means for getting it.
As no man possesses a natural right to do mischief, so the law which forbids it does not diminish the natural liberty of mankind.
Literary property therefore is not a natural right, but a conventional one.
That which is an absolute or natural right, so long as held in idea or in manuscript, becomes, when given to the world in multiplied copies, the creature of law.
These are not repugnant to natural right, as we have already observed that those things are called JUST, in which there is no injustice.
Some times also, by a wrong use of the word, those things which reason shews to be proper, or better than things of an opposite kind, although not binding, are said to belong to natural right.
If it be contended that labour together with the natural right to use the ownerless goods of nature have all the elements of a valid title, the assertion must be rejected as unprecise and inadequate.
These cannot be claimed by any person, nor by any community, in virtue of the individual's natural right to the bounty of nature.
To interpret man's natural right to land by any other standard than human welfare, is to make of it a fetish, not a thing of reason.
They do not wish to recognize an eternal, natural right, but one inherited from their fathers, "the old, undoubted rights of the English people.
But in spite of his fundamental conception of a natural right, the individual with rights was for Blackstone not man simply, but the English subject.
If natural right is identical with non-historical right, then the first doctrine is for the modern state that of natural right, the second that of historical right.
Nor does this decision carry with it any injustice, any robbery of just or natural rightto woman.
I do not believe the proposition so often asserted that suffrage is a political privilege only, and not a natural right.
The property qualification is, to my mind, an invasion of natural right, which elevates mere property to an equality with life and personal liberty, and ought never to be imposed upon the suffrage.
But we must remember that all our American institutions are based on consistency, or on nothing: all claim to be founded on the principles of natural right; and when they quit those, they are lost.
How this simple axiom sweeps away, for instance, the cobweb speculations as to whether voting is a natural right, or a privilege delegated by society!
That the exercise of a free trade with all parts of the world, possessed by the American colonists, as of natural right, and which no law of their own had taken away or abridged, was next the object of unjust encroachment.
To effect it, no violence was necessary, no deprivation of natural right, but rather an enlargement of it by a repeal of the law.
Justice in itself is ordinarily represented by us in the form of a natural right, right in a condition of nature; such a condition of nature is, however, a direct moral impossibility.
From these few remarks it is clear that Aristotle could not have had any thought of a so-called natural right (if a natural right be wanted), that is, the idea of the abstract man outside of any actual relation to others.
Neither did he trouble himself about a natural right, which is but a trivial abstraction foisted on to the real practical existence, the right; but it is of man’s moral nature that he treats in the Republic.
Who was there more conversant with the genius of our country than Washington; and yet how full is his testimony to the evil of slavery; its want of natural right to support it, and the necessity of its speedy suppression and abolition?
The question with them was not, ought slavery to be recognized as a natural right, and slaves a species of property like other merchandise?
Cardinal Manning said: "A starving man has a natural right to his neighbor's bread.
Now I do not mean that he has a "natural right" to do these things inscribed on any lawbook of Nature.
The fugitive has been a slave before: does the wrong you committed yesterday, give you a natural right to commit wrong afresh and continually?
Because you enslaved this man's father, have you a natural right to enslave his child?
One thing more I think is very plain, that the fugitive has the same natural right to defend himself against the slave-catcher, or his constitutional tool, that he has against a murderer or a wolf.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
