List of Natural, God Given, Inalienable Rights.

GOD GIVEN, SOVEREIGN, NATURAL, LOGICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS:

LIFE

A sovereign individual is a living being. Each of us has a right to life, and to maintain that life. This is the first sovereign right.

SURVIVAL

The right to survive includes the right. . .

• To preserve and continue one’s existence
• To provide for the material survival of oneself (and one’s family)
• To use the resources provided by nature:
• Air
• Water
• Clothing
• Food
• Shelter
• To labor
• To enjoy the fruits of one’s labor
• To pursue the betterment of one’s circumstances

FREEDOM

The right to freedom includes. . .

• The right to be free from …
• Captivity
• Slavery and involuntary servitude
• Invasion
• Coercion
• Force
• Tyranny
• Forced adhesion
• Forced allegiance

SELF-OWNERSHIP

The right of self-ownership includes the right. . .

• To make personal choices
• To determine one’s actions and reactions
• To exercise exclusive authority over oneself

PROPERTARIAN RIGHTS

(SURVIVAL)

SELF-DEFENSE

The right to self-protection includes...

• The right to defend oneself from . . .
• Injury
• Death
• Torture
• Subjection to force or captivity
• Subjection to oppression or tyranny
• The right to extend this protection beyond oneself to include . . .
• One’s family
• Innocent third parties
• One’s nation
• The right to own and carry weapons

PROPERTY

The right to property includes . . .

• The right to . . .
• Acquire
• Possess
• Protect and defend
• Enjoy
• Control
• Develop
• Be secure in
• Dispose of
• Own title to
• . . . private objects, including, but not limited to . . .
• Land
• Consumable goods
• Money
• Personal possessions
• Information
• Intellectual property
• Personal likenesses
• The right to be secure in one’s property from trespass
• The right to be secure in one’s property from forced quartering of others
• The right to be secure in one’s property from acquisition or use by others
• The right to use of the natural resources of one’s property, and to establish just claim to the use thereof

CONTROL OF BODY

The right to control of body includes . . .

• The right to control one’s own body
• The right to make decisions about one’s body so long as this does not include intentionally harming an unborn baby, therefore infringing on that baby's right to life
• The right to seek care
• The right to refuse care
• The right to administer self-care

MOVEMENT AND LOCATION

The right to movement and location includes . . .

• The right to move one’s body or change location as one desires
• The right to travel freely
• The right to migrate freely
• The right to leave a given country or area
• The right to choose where to live
• The right to reside in a given place unmolested by others

PROCREATION

The right of procreation includes . . .

• The right to conceive and bear children
• The right to keep and raise one’s children

PROPERTARIAN RIGHTS

(FREEDOM)

PAIRING

The right to pairing includes . . .

• The right to choose a consenting mate
• The right to enter into private or religious marriage or bonding arrangements without government interference or involvement

PRIVACY

The right to privacy includes . . .

• The right to be alone
• The right to seclude oneself
• The right to seclude personal information
• The right to be selective about recipients of information
• The right to be selective about associations
• The right to be anonymous
• The right to secure from search and scrutiny one’s
• Person
• Property
• Finances
• Documents

EXPRESSION AND SPEECH

The right of expression and speech includes . . .

• The right to express any idea and disseminate information through any medium: voice, print, or other means.

THOUGHT AND CONSCIENCE

The right to thought and conscience includes . . .

• The right to employ one’s reason and intellect
• The right to act on the rational judgments of one’s own mind
• The right to contrive and invent
• The right to hold opinions and beliefs independent of others
• The right to one’s emotions
• The right to choose one’s values
• The right to employ one’s values in one’s daily life

PRESERVATION OF FREEDOM

The right to preservation of freedom includes . . .

• The right to maintain one’s condition of freedom, using force if necessary, to defend oneself from . . .
• Injury
• Death
• Torture
• Subjection to force or captivity
• Subjection to oppression or tyranny
• Forced adhesion
• Forced allegiance
• The right to extend this protection beyond oneself to include . . .
• One’s family
• One’s community
• One’s nation
• The right to own and carry whatever weapons are necessary to discharge this right

ASSOCIATIVE RIGHTS

(SURVIVAL)

MUTUAL PROTECTION

• The right to work with others to form collective security arrangements to defend the persons, property, and territory of individuals and groups
• The right to equip and empower security forces and personnel to the degree necessary to discharge their assigned roles
• The right to exercise oversight authority over the conduct of said personnel and forces
• The right to maintain the means to provide individual and collective defense against oppression, tyranny, or external force.

COMMERCE

• The right to engage in voluntary private transactions with individuals or groups
• To buy
• To sell
• To trade
• The right to make contracts and voluntary agreements
• The right to make agreements that yield a portion of one’s own property in exchange for a portion of another’s
• The right to title over property in any such agreement voluntarily entered into
• The right to purchase the labor of a willing seller
• The right to sell one’s labor to a willing buyer
• The right to gather with others to form private business and employment associations
• The right not to be compelled to form business or employment associations
• The right not to be compelled to join business or employment associations
• The right not to be compelled to pay for others’ business or employment associations
• The right to choose a profession
• The right to refuse to engage in any transaction not previously contracted
• The right to fail

MEDICINE

• The right to create institutions for the delivery of medical care
• The right to deliver care to willing patients
• The right of patients to seek care
• The right to create institutions for the teaching of medical knowledge

MIGRATION AND TRAVEL

• The right of people, through cooperation and with respect of property rights, to create roads and thoroughfares
• The right of people to migrate to unoccupied territory
• The right of people to create mutually acceptable agreements for travel, movement, and migration through private areas or to create public rights-of-way

ASSOCIATIVE RIGHTS

(FREEDOM)

GROUP PRIVACY

• The right to form private associations
• The right to maintain private membership
• The right to maintain private finances
• The right to maintain private documents

COLLECTIVE EXPRESSION

• The right to gather with others to express ideas and disseminate information
• The right to a free press
• The right to form political parties and express platforms
• The right to create ideological, intellectual, and artistic movements and to express the views thereof
• The right to artistic and other forms of collaborative expression

BELIEF SYSTEMS AND RELIGION

• The right to associate with others and develop belief systems
• The right to associate with others and adhere to belief systems
• The right to choose a belief system
• The right not to choose a belief system
• The right to worship in the manner one chooses
• The right to choose not to worship
• The right to practice religion
• The right not to practice religion
• The right to associate and form religious groups with others
• The right of groups to freedom of association and expression, and
• To evangelize
• To solicit members
• To train members
• To self-govern
• To discipline, expel, and excommunicate members

CONSENT

• The right to establish government
• The right to participate in government
• The right to control government via consent and representation
• The right to petition government and seek redress
• The right to alter government
• The right to institute new government
• The right to rebel against tyranny
• The right to jury nullification
• The right to reject laws that violate natural rights
• The right to transparent government
• The right to monitor government
• The right to vote or have a say in governance
• The right to withdraw consent

SOCIAL RIGHTS

(THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CIVILIZATION)

ASSOCIATION

The right of association includes . . .

• The right to associate with any person or group
• The right to disassociate from any person or group
• The right to be alone
• The right to agree to form mutually acceptable agreements with any person or group
• The right to form voluntary groups for mutually beneficial purposes
• The right to occupy mutually agreeable meeting spaces
• The right to create exclusive associations

FAMILY FORMATION

• The right of people, through pairing and procreation, for form sovereign family groups
• The right of a sovereign family unit to make choices they deem beneficial, free from external coercion
• The right (and responsibility) of parents to provide physical care to their children*
• The right (and responsibility) of parents to provide intellectual, emotional, and spiritual care to their children*
• The right (and responsibility) of parents to discipline their children*

* Parents have freedom of means and degrees, so long as the child’s natural rights and nascent natural rights are not violated.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

• The right to join with others to form complex social units and social organizational structures
• The right to develop and observe customs and traditions
• The right to derive ongoing guidance from accumulated human wisdom
• The right to develop common law
• The right to agree to a social contract

SOCIAL CONTRACT

• The right to form a political society that preserves, secures, and defends individual rights to the maximum degree, and with the minimum disruption, possible.

THE NECESSARY FINAL COMPONENT . . .

Equal Claim

• The moral condition that all individuals have equal title to natural rights.

A quick coda on “civil rights.”

Once the metaphorical (or literal, in the case of the United States) social contract has been “signed,” natural rights (are supposed to) become codified as civil rights, as part of a fixed, knowable rule of law. Among the civil rights most commonly thought of as essential are those that pertain to justice, such as

• The right to be responsible only for one’s own crimes
• The right to a speedy and public trial
• The right to an impartial jury
• The right to be informed of the crime of which one is accused
• The right to be confronted with the witnesses
• The right to be able to call witnesses in one’s favor
• The right to have legal representation
• The right not to be tried twice for the same crime
• The right not to be compelled to witness against oneself
• The right to fair trial
• The right to due process
• The right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment
• The right to be free from excessive fines
• The right to habeas corpus
• The right to be confronted with one’s accuser
• The right to take those actions needed to prevent criminals from repeating crimes, within the bounds of what is required to do so.

http://www.westernfreepress.com/2014/10/22/a-taxonomy-and-list-of-natural-rights/