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| natural rights philosophy |
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| the doctrine of natural rights assumes that human beings had rights in a "state of nature" and create government in order to protect those rights |
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| funamental rights belonging to every member of a society |
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| the sum of qualities and traits shared by all humans |
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| all of the implicit(constitutionally guarenteed) and implied(by natural laws rights of a citezen in a free society |
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| the basis of natural right philosophy, state of nature is the hypothetical condition of people living together in a society |
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| unalienable(inablienable) rights |
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| fundamental rights of the people that may not be taken away. This phrase was used in the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Declaration of Independence |
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| (1632-1704). English philosopher. wrote two treaties on government, letters concerning toleration, and an essay concerning human understanding, had a freat incluence on American political thinkers during the Revolutionary period and the early years of the new nation. |
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| the rational investigation of the truths of being,knowledge, and conduct |
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