Sentences with phrase «inherent unalienable rights»

«Z,» replying to Benjamin Franklin in Boston, did argue that there had to be an express reservation of «inherent unalienable rights,» for example, «in case the government should have in their heads a predilection for any one sect in religion?

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Jefferson, as is well known, believed that every generation had the right «to begin the world over again, and that: «Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man,» and it was he that felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He was contemptuous of those who «look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

This «absolute content» is defined as the unalienable core of the right, inherent to the dignity of the person.

As Thomas Jefferson said about the Constitution of the United States: «Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.»