GK
INDIAN POLITICS
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Question
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Rights are a divine creation
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Rights came from pre-civil society
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Rights were granted by the king
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Rights are granted by the Constitution
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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural rights are basic rights that include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Every citizen is entitled to these rights and they are to be protected from encroachment by the government or society. It is both illegal and morally wrong for a person to be denied natural rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -17th-century English philosopher John Locke discussed natural rights in his work, identifying them as being “life, liberty, and estate (property)", and argued that such fundamental rights could not be surrendered in the social contract.
Detailed explanation-3: -Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain “inalienable” natural rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are “life, liberty, and property."
Detailed explanation-4: -natural rights, political theory that maintains that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights and that no government can deny these rights.