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Bentham and Burke claimed that rights arise from the actions of government, or evolve from tradition, and that neither of these can provide anything inalienable. (See Bentham's "Critique of the Doctrine of Inalienable, Natural Rights", and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France). Presaging the shift in thinking in the 19th century ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
For instance cleave "separate" is from Old English clēofan, while cleave "adhere" is from Old English clifian, which was pronounced differently. Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions.
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...
Investigators Rarely Sustain Allegations Of Any Kind. Sources: Invisible Institute, City of Chicago, Census Bureau, CNN Of 10,500 complaints filed by black people between 2011 and 2015, just 166 — or 1.6 percent — were sustained or led to discipline after an internal investigation.
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to dispose of the property. Alienability is the quality of being alienable, i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be sold or otherwise transferred from one party to another.
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Both synonyms assert, of a right, that the possessor's right to something cannot be taken, or given, away, whether the thing itself has been or not. Septentrionalis 22:09, 9 September 2005 (UTC) That is your opinion. It was not the opinion of the Colonial Congress. "Inalienable" was a word already in wide use when the declaration was penned.