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natural rights

Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006

Rights that are assumed to be available to everybody, for no other reason that they are people. These days we tend to use the term `human rights'; however, `natural rights' has a more transcendental feel about it. To have `natural rights' gives the impression that these rights are inaliable, and derive from some higher power than humanity. `Human rights', on the other hand, gives the impression of rights that people have decided to defend on each other's behalf. Many supporters of NaturalLaw jurisprudence would support the notion of natural rights, although the term itself isn't widely used any more. Jeremy Bentham described natural rights as `nonsense on stilts'.

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