There is then nothing else from which to derive it than the conceptions of natural rights of that time.
The theory of natural rights for a long time had no hesitation in setting forth the contradiction between natural law and positive law without demanding the realization of the former through the latter.
Paine's adversaries did not believe in natural rights.
But his contempt for historical Conservatism was equalled by his contempt for the conception of natural rights.
But often the appeal to a moral principle borrowed the conceptions of Greek philosophy and Roman law, and spoke of "natural rights" or a "law of nature.
On Nature and Law of Nature: Ritchie, Natural Rights, 1895; Burnet, Int.
Natural rights in property may be invoked to thwart efforts to protect life and health.
Civil society does not abridge our natural rights, but secures and protects them.
They occur in a declaration of independence; and as the subject is the doctrine of human rights, so we suppose they mean to declare that all men are created equal with respect to natural rights.
Sidenote: Natural rights] The natural-rights theory is that property is necessary for the realization of the dignity of human nature.
The older theories of the origin of private property are those of occupation, conquest, labor, natural rights, and law.
It is, then, one of man's indisputable, natural rights to lend and hire capital in any and every form and manner that is intrinsically honest.
In so far as the separate, private, natural rights of individuals are disregarded or violated, in just so far are "public rights" disregarded or violated.
For the right to make any and all of them stands on the same grounds of natural law, natural justice, and men's natural rights.
During the latter half of the nineteenth century the doctrine of natural rights was of declining importance as a basis of the suffrage.
This change was due, in large part, to the influence of the doctrine of natural rights.
According to the doctrine of natural rights, all men are born free and equal, and are entitled to certain fundamental rights of which they may not be deprived.
But here again it cannot be claimed that Darwin was original.
It is due to the resistance of matter to form that Nature can only rise by degrees from lower to higher types.
Epicurus and Lucretius, often called poets of evolution, both pictured animals as arising directly out of the earth, very much as Milton's lion long afterwards pawed its way out.
There are a few people we now and then meet who, like Jeremy Bentham, scout the idea of natural rights in civilization, and pronounce them mere metaphors, declaring that there are no rights aside from those the law confers.
Wives are bargained for, bought and sold, as other merchandise, and as a consequence of the annihilation of natural rights, they have no political existence.
Private ownership of land belongs in a third class of natural rights.
The doctrine of natural rights is so prominent in the arguments of both the advocates and the opponents of private landownership that it deserves specific treatment.
Three Principal Kinds of Natural Rights Although natural rights are all equally valid, they differ in regard to their basis, and their urgency or importance.
Such is the actual interpretation in practice of natural rights--claims which some people have by prerogative on other people.
There is a beautiful notion afloat in our literature and in the minds of our people that men are born to certain "natural rights.
If there were such things as natural rights, the question would arise, Against whom are they good?
Of course, the two pages devoted to "Natural Rights" would mention, among other references, Prof.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural rights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
