Natural rights are rights that aren't contingent. Not contingent to the law, beliefs and/or customs. Natural rights are rights that are thought to be universal, completly different from legal rights because they are rights that culturally and politically relative. This also would mean for anyone could have the previlage of a freedom having to do with human's basic way of acting or living, such as owning a land or the right to marry anyone they want. In the Declaration of Independence, some rights say the following: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
They are also said to be "rights which grow out of the nature of being a human". Natural rights are essential to human progress. Once these rights were violated by Great Britain and this conrtibuted to the American Revolution.
Information resources: http://www.historycentral.com/Civics/N.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights, http://www.krootlaw.com/info-library/legal-dictionary/, http://teacher.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/mmontgomery/american_govt/ch_notes/terms/ch2_terms.htm
Zineb, you share a lot here about one of the 5 principles that supported the D of Independence. What do you have to say about the other 4?
ReplyDeleteThe other 4 are seperatly in other posts ... i thought it would be better to divide them because too much information may create some kind of boredom... hopefully it was a good strategy :)
ReplyDeletep.s: sorry to have answered late