GVPT 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Natural And Legal Rights
9 May 2016
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People have unalienable rights so basic that a government cannot repress these rights. One of these is the right to property - a natural, pre-political right. State of nature - a state of liberty, equality, with no natural hierarchy; distinguishes between a state of liberty and license. The only constraint upon a person in the state of nature is a person"s constraint from taking the natural rights of others or your own. God has a prior and absolute right of property over us, bc we are his creation. over you. When a right is unalienable, it makes it as deeply possessive to the person who has that right. Reasoned that freedom is not a matter of doing whatever we want. Private property can arise before any form of government, because every man has a property in his own person the labor of his body and hands are unarguably his . We have a proprietary right to our own person.
