Noun
natural right (plural natural rights)
Any right existing by virtue of natural law, such as liberty, or security of one's person and property.
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right. Charles James Fox
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance. Leo Strauss
Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? Susan B. Anthony
Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. Rufus Choate
A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights. Frank Van Dun
Any law Made for the preserve of a human right, made to guard a human being, cannot sleep long enough to die; but any law that deprives a human being of a natural right -- if that law goes to sleep, it never wakes, it sleeps the sleep of death. Robert G. Ingersoll