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  2. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Unalienable Rights are essential Limitations in all Governments." Hutcheson, however, placed clear limits on his notion of unalienable rights, declaring that "there can be no Right, or Limitation of Right, inconsistent with, or opposite to the greatest public Good." [27] Hutcheson elaborated on this idea of unalienable rights in his A System of ...

  3. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect. Like the other principles in the Declaration of Independence, this phrase is not legally binding, but has been widely referenced and seen as an inspiration for the ...

  4. Civil liberties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Civil liberties in the United States are certain unalienable rights retained by (as opposed to privileges granted to) citizens of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted and clarified by the Supreme Court of the United States and lower federal courts. [1]

  5. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name ...

  6. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Constitution, chiefly authored by John Adams in 1780, contains in its Declaration of Rights the wording: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and ...

  7. Why all federal and state officials must swear an oath to ...

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    Judges, federal or state, must abide by the Rule of Law - all men and women are treated with equality and endowed with unalienable rights. Judges, most importantly, must be the checks and balances ...

  8. Human rights - Wikipedia

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    Some human rights are said to be "inalienable rights". The term inalienable rights (or unalienable rights) refers to "a set of human rights that are fundamental, are not awarded by human power, and cannot be surrendered". The adherence to the principle of indivisibility by the international community was reaffirmed in 1995:

  9. Inalienable possessions - Wikipedia

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    Inalienable possessions (or immovable property) are things such as land or objects that are symbolically identified with the groups that own them and so cannot be permanently severed from them. Landed estates in the Middle Ages, for example, had to remain intact and even if sold, they could be reclaimed by blood kin. As a legal classification ...