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Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:26 am to GRTiger
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Why were they inalienable, according to the Founders?
According to Jefferson, as taken from Locke, human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 10:33 am to GRTiger
Because they come from Nature, as Aristotle argued.
The Founders didn't invent the idea of natural rights, they were inspired - as the rest of the Western world was - by the Greeks.
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Universal law is the law of Nature. For there really is, as every one to some extent divines, a natural justice and injustice that is binding on all men, even on those who have no association or covenant with each other.
The Founders didn't invent the idea of natural rights, they were inspired - as the rest of the Western world was - by the Greeks.
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