Rights of Man
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liberty and justice · natural rights · the Rights of Man · the rights of man
in the texts
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The natural, inherent, inalienable rights of individuals, described as the founding bond of the national union.
Now the great bond of union, agreed upon in the general government, was “the rights of man”—expressed in the national constitution by the terms “liberty and justice.
Law in a Free State
A body of asserted rights which the author argues will become genuine realities only under a government grounded in individualism.
and the Rights of Man will exist as realities, and not as a mere expression denoting each man's private notions of what his rights ought to be.