Friday, November 16, 2007

Natural Rights

What are "natural rights"?

When creating a government, how can "natural rights" be protected? Explain and give examples.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights is the right to live, liberty, and property
When creating a government natural rights could be portected by the citizens. Or it would be protected as a law you never know.

Jackson said...

Kimberly,
Give us an example of how natural rights can be protected by citizens.

Anonymous said...

What I think a natural right is, is when your rights are always going to be automatically going to be be affective. Like when your born your automatically a citizen. Like when your a immigrant and you come to the USA; they have a right a speech and they have a right to become a citizen on there own free will.

Anonymous said...

Natural rights are are rights that are based on what should be fair to you in life & freedom. Then when you have a government you have to make sure that the rules he makes should be natural rights they can't be rights that are unfairly for some people that live in the nation. Natural rights protect the people because if the government wants to punish someone unfairly for not believing in god then if there is a natural right that says you can believe in whatever you desire then the government can't do nothing about that.

Anonymous said...

Natural rights means that all people has these rights just because they are humans. When creating a government natural rights can be protected. For example, you could say that everybody has the right to own and make their own property, that is one natural right. Another example is when somebody has the right to live their life, that's a right that they have and you can't take it away from them. So when your making a government you can think about what natural rights you would like to have, and then maybe everyone else would want the same as you. Think about if you were a citizen and think about what would you like the president to do with the laws, and if you would still want your natural right. You wouldn't want to have somebody take it away from you, something that you have the right to have.

Anonymous said...

Natural rights are rights that you have first hand like when you first come to the United States.
I don't understand it.

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights are like right that are automatically come once you are born. A natural right is a right that every human being has. For example if you were born in the u.s you are a u.s citizen automatically. So you will have all the rights as a u.s citizen.

Well if making a government natural right can be protected by having like a government because if natural right not protected then the situation will be state of nature. So its good to have natural rights but not have to many.

Anonymous said...

I think natural right are rights to life , liberty and property. When creating a government natural right can be protected by the government do ing what they are supposition to be doing.

Unknown said...

what i think is natural rights is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness



almost every state has natural rights

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights means that all persons have these rights just because they are human beings.

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights could be protected by citizen in many ways. One way is if the government try to take it away we could protest. By protesting we could show we want and its our Natural Rights. I said this because in the packet theres a part that says "Every one is born with these rights and they should not be taken away without a person agreement."

To: Ms. Jackson

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights are agreements that every human is entitled to. Every person or human should have these rights and not ave them taken away without subjective agreements. These natural rights include the right to live/ life, liberty, and property. In an state of nature, natural rights could be protected by social compact or social contract, which is and agreement with those who lived freely. This would state that they'd give up their freedom for safety and re-assurance. They social compact would enable the people to create a government to rule over them and they'd have to obey the laws the government set for them

Anonymous said...

I think natural rights are rights we as citizens are born with, what I mean by that is we that we have a freedom of speech, we have the right to defend our selves if we arm in harms way. natural rights is getting your social security pay, having the right to choose who you want to be govner. natural rights can be protected when creating a government by the govner protecting your rights and safety because it says"without government people might feel free to do anything they want BUT their rights wont be protected and their safety will be at risk.

Anonymous said...

Natural rights are right you have as a citizen. natural right are same thing as legal right they both mean the same thing.

The way you protect your laws are by making sure people get in trouble for the wrong things they do.

Anonymous said...

What think natural rights means the rights a person have for example in the United State the citizen they have rights or for saying very body have rights even the immigrant.Natural rights could be protect because when some one get in problem the natural rights could help them but the problem have to be on feard.

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights are rights that people have when they are born.
When Creating a government Natural Rights can be helpful. It could be helpful because people could stay safe because they have them. It can be protected because the government cant take them away because of Social Compact and Social contract. That is the agreement that people made with the government to rule people and protect their natural rights.

Anonymous said...

Natural rights to me is rights to/of life which is Liberty and property.

I think natural can be protected by as and the law.

Anonymous said...

Natural Rights- To me natural rights are the rights that people already have atomatically. Everybody has rights.like for an example a natural right is somebody has rightsthat they can ..............

Anonymous said...

Natural rights are rights that you are born with. Your natural rights cannot be taken away without your agreement. And most people in America believed that the natural rights should be that right to have a life, liberty, and property.

I think that natural rights can be protected if the government can make sure that it is possible hat every get treated equally. I mean like in our government today there are certain laws that apply to people of higher class, with more income. On the other hand there are certain laws with people of lower class, lower income. What every one was to have the same income as the next guy. The was no upper class or lower class mates. I think that everyones natural rights would be protected if we can just was all equal.