Natural Rights of Human Beings
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17th century philosopher John Locke presented the idea that there are some natural rights that every human being is born with and such fundamental rights cannot be surrendered to the state or government.... As such, human being is a very natural creature with a variety of desires and rights are the basic means for satisfying these desires.... Anyhow, sometime during the 17th century, the old natural rights doctrines were modified to stress the fact that individuals, being natural beings, possessed certain inalienable rights that cannot be violated unreasonably by any authority.
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