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The phrase 'inalienable rights' was first used some time around 1760.  It is synonymous with 'natural rights', which for some are 'God given rights'.   
 
The phrase 'inalienable rights' was first used some time around 1760.  It is synonymous with 'natural rights', which for some are 'God given rights'.   
  
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American independence owes much to English Common Law.  The majority of the colonists were English who would eventually insist on being treated as English subjects in that, English subjects enjoyed rights that were conferred by the English constitution.  And the English constitution rested on Common Law.  From the beginning of the English colonies in America, there was conflict between the interest of the colonists and the interests of the English crown and the chartered companies behind the colonies.  Parliament created a number of Acts that regulated and taxed colonial trade in ways that were expensive for the colonists - and, in which, the colonists had no voice.  For more than a century, these conflicts could be, and were, ignored when they interfered too greatly in the ability of the colonists to pursue their economic interests.  In the mid 18th century, a point was reached at which one or the other would have to prevail.  In that time leading up to American independence, influential arguments were made by colonial lawyers, in court cases pressed by English authorities, that relied little on specific legal arguments and more on appealing to the rights conferred by English Common Law.  The colonists wanted the rights of subjects living in England.  They had little interest in independence until it appeared to be the only way to achieve them.
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This concept of rights, which are due to everyone at birth, is the foundation of the rule of law - which is the foundation of the government, first of England, and then of the United States of America in the new world.  Though both have at times strayed, these governments were set up as guardians of these natural rights and the people to whom they belong.
  
 
This portal is the place to assign categories and pages that present and discuss the concept of inalienable rights and various associated topics - such as English Common Law and the English Constitution.
 
This portal is the place to assign categories and pages that present and discuss the concept of inalienable rights and various associated topics - such as English Common Law and the English Constitution.

Revision as of 23:12, 30 January 2014

Inalienable Rights

The phrase 'inalienable rights' was first used some time around 1760. It is synonymous with 'natural rights', which for some are 'God given rights'.

This concept of rights, which are due to everyone at birth, is the foundation of the rule of law - which is the foundation of the government, first of England, and then of the United States of America in the new world. Though both have at times strayed, these governments were set up as guardians of these natural rights and the people to whom they belong.

This portal is the place to assign categories and pages that present and discuss the concept of inalienable rights and various associated topics - such as English Common Law and the English Constitution.

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Morgan's Raiders entering Washington, Ohio in August, 1863
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Inalienable Rights
Liberal, Conservative, or Progressive
  Inalienable Rights
  The 2nd Bill of Rights

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