Natural Rights

God-given rights, are rights derived not from man but from “Nature and Natures God”. These Rights are not revocable by mans authority, as they aren’t granted by man. This is important, as Rights not derived from the abuser of said rights can be fairly contested. It also mentions jural which is common law. If you don’t have common law, you don’t have natural rights.

Natural rights are those which grow out of the nature of man and depend upon personality, as distinguished from such as are created by law and depend upon civilized society; or they are those which are plainly assured by natural law (Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 44 Am.Dec. 217) ; or those which, by fair deduction from the present physical, moral, social, and religious characteristics of man, he must be invested with, and which he ought to have realized for him in a jural society, in order to fulfill the ends to which his nature calls him. 1 Woolsey, Polit. Science, p. 26. Such are the rights of life, liberty, privacy, and good reputation. See Black, Const. Law (3d Ed.) 523.

Black’s Law Dictionary 4th Edition Page 1487

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