http://duregger.disqus.com/NoneenMon, 26 Oct 2009 14:38:40 -0000http://www.duregger.net/all-things-equal/#comment-21051676<p>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.</p><p>anyway, first line was where did it come from.. it came from philosophers. </p>Mark BMon, 26 Oct 2009 14:38:40 -0000