...nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights—such as are life and liberty—need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested...receive any additional strength when declared by the munin laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislati has power to abridge or destroy them,...

...nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights — such as are life and liberty — need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually...invested in every man than they are ; neither do they , * Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford edition, 1765, vol. ip 125. f Paley's...

...rights — such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually vested in every man than they are : neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy...

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...punishment ' The same writer, after having defore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually...legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself clared the "inexpediency" of the discussion, goes on, not very consistently,...

...natural rights—such as life and liberty—need not the aid of human laws to be more effect, ually invested in every man than they are; neither do they...legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner himself shall commit some act which amounts to a forfeiture."f In a state of society,...

...author (in Vol. I. p. 54,) after telling us that " the rights, which God and nature have established, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are," and adding that,"neither do divine or natural duties receiveanystrongersanction from being declared...

...nature have established, and are, therefore, called natural rights — such as life and liberty — need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually...legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner himself shall commit some act which amounts to a forfeiture. The first and primary...