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Natural Rights, Morality, and the Law
DOI: 10.4236/blr.2011.21004
Keywords: Rights , Justice , Law , Reasonableness
Abstract:
It is argued that despite attempts to discount the importance of natural rights for morality, they are fundamental to it; therefore, so too are natural rights to the legitimacy of the law.
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