Natural Rights
"... man has certain inalienable rights which do not derive from government at all.
Under this theory not only the Sovereign Conqueror, but the Sovereign People,
are restricted in their power and authority by man's natural rights,
or by the divine rights of the individual man. And those certain inalienable
and divine rights cannot be abrogated by the vote of a majority any more than
they can by the decree of a conqueror. The idea that the vote of a people,
no matter how nearly unanimous, makes or creates or determines what is right or just,
becomes as absurd and unacceptable as the idea that right and justice are simply whatever a king says they are."
— Robert Welch
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