Though this has nothing really to do with your point, I'd figure I'd point that Thomas Jefferson/Ben Franklin took the idea of natural rights from the European enlightenment movement. Locke specifically was a major influence with his natural rights theories that man had natural rights of Life, Liberty and Property and there was a social contract that the laws were to protect those.. Thomas Hobbes had theories about natural rights vs laws.. or liberty vs obligation.
anyway, first line was where did it come from.. it came from philosophers.
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anyway, first line was where did it come from.. it came from philosophers.