| To ask whether there are any human, or natural rights is to pose a potentially misleading question. |
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| Theories based on natural rights were to be the principal vehicles for the discussion of ethical issues for the rest of the century. |
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| Spinoza argued that natural rights were those that were within a being's power to secure. |
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| In Article 6 children born to Bhutanese citizens are given natural rights to citizenship. |
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| The natural rights of the Western Saharan people must be fulfilled as quickly and peacefully as possible. |
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| A famous example of the natural rights approach is the libertarian theory of Robert Nozick. |
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| The second reason is that people have been told that natural rights for authors is the accepted and unquestioned tradition of our society. |
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| The public trades away some of its natural rights to make copies, and in exchange gets the benefit of more books' being written and published. |
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| Thus, the people delegate to government and to courts the authority to ensure that all people have their natural rights protected. |
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| On the other side, advocates of indigenous authors allied themselves with partisans of free trade and international copyright, claiming universal natural rights of authorship. |
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| How do we look to advancing the most basic human rights, natural rights, for instance, freedom of religion? |
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| Maritain held that natural rights are fundamental and inalienable, and antecedent in nature, and superior, to society. |
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| The qualification was based on the idea that a person can forfeit his natural rights to life and liberty by a suitably serious violation of natural law. |
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| Anti-Federalist hostility persisted until finally the Federalists agreed to add a Bill of Rights guaranteeing basic natural rights, especially freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and protest. |
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| Human rights are defined as natural rights while culture is something acquired. |
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| The Constitution was indeed influenced by European ideas, including natural rights and the separation of powers. |
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| There are natural rights and civil rights. |
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| Those guarantees are an inherent part of our natural rights because people have shed blood for centuries to make them the law and no one can change them. |
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| Civil rights are grounded in natural rights. |
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| There are certain natural laws, from which flow natural rights. |
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| Wollstonecraft identifies natural rights as inalienable and God-given. |
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| It has been a quick campaign but during which more than a third of the population died, a second third was displaced and those who remained were deprived of their natural rights. |
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| His debates with China's Zhang Pengjun over the role that natural rights should play in the document represented a high point in international discourse. |
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| We are witnessing the formation of a new totalitarian system, which holds in contempt natural rights, the rights of nations, the rights of families and every individual's right to life. |
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| Since all men have, by nature, an equal right to life, honour and liberty, anyone who kills, injures, abuses or illegally detains a man, violates the natural rights of that man. |
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| The idea that these natural rights should entitle people to certain legal rights became more widely accepted and began to be reflected in the constitutions of some countries. |
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| The arrested person had distributed the newspaper only in his own neighbourhood on Sundays and holidays, thus exercising his natural rights as a citizen during an election period. |
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| These natural rights include perfect equality and freedom, and the right to preserve life and property. |
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| Ward says that Locke's liberal Whiggism rested on a radically individualist theory of natural rights and limited government. |
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| These natural rights include perfect equality and freedom, as well as the right to preserve life and property. |
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| Warren built a coalition of Justices after 1962 that developed the idea of natural rights as guaranteed in the Constitution. |
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| The Leveller Thomas Rainborough responded, relying on Overton's arguments, that the Levellers required respect for others' natural rights. |
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| They never absolutized natural rights or Roman law or even the Roman people. |
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| These were demonstrated by a leadership and government that espoused protection of natural rights, and a system of laws chosen by the people. |
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| The king also sincerely believed he was defending Britain's constitution against usurpers, rather than opposing patriots fighting for their natural rights. |
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| In these and other cases, it is important to bear in mind that the arguments in On Liberty are grounded on the principle of Utility, and not on appeals to natural rights. |
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| Grotius posited that individual human beings had natural rights. |
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