@p @kaia @amerika @thatguyoverthere @Ninji Natural = birth; by birth.

A natural right is what anyone is right to do by virtue of one's being. Thus, a natural right is an inherent and inalienable claim by anyone simply for being alive.

Examples of natural rights include the right to life, liberty, property (ownership of chattel, works, repayment of credit), and freedom of expression (speaking, worship, building).

Any natural right is essential for anyone to flourish.

Natural Law = universal and unwritten principles inherent to sentient beings, accessible through reasoning, independent of man-made laws, i.e., artificial law.

Reason ought to lead men who are strangers to each other to know how to live in harmony. Basic rules like "do no harm" and "keep promises" often fall under the banner of natural law.

Natural law provides the foundation for recognizing specific rights individuals possess such as self-preservation.

Civil rights are artificial and must have matching civil duties. Most often, civil rights of civil law merely are privileges that impose duties upon others to effect those.

Thus civil right fall under positive rights jurisprudence, which exemplified by the phrase: I have a right to be advantaged. You have a duty to give me advantage.

Contrast this with negative rights jurisprudence: I have a right to be left alone. You have a duty to leave alone me.

As most fail to know these foundation concepts, they are like children throughout their lives not understanding the adult world of jurisprudence.

Social democracy, our current system first imposed by 1913 and first in rudimentary stage, later developed under FDR, LBJ, Nixon and then the rest, is expression of Positive Rights jurisprudence.

The Libertarian Republicanism of 1781 to 1912 is expression of Negative Rights jurisprudence.

No American for the last 112 years has ever lived under Negative Rights jurisprudence, though the violent criminal code, still reflects such a jurisprudence.

Negative rights jurisprudence flows from the North Sea Germanic mind, mainly Anglo-Saxon and Frisian. Positive Rights jurisprudence flows the Roman-Jewish mind.