Natural rights and legal rights
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." --second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson |
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Natural and legal rights are two types of rights. Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal and inalienable (they cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws). Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system (they can be modified, repealed, and restrained by human laws).
See also
- Constitutional economics
- Constitutionalism
- Fundamental rights
- Human dignity
- Human rights
- Natural law
- Positive law
- Rule according to higher law
- Rule of law
- Substantive due process
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