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Comment in 150 words: Idea of Natural Rights.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 10 marks
  • Rights

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Natural rights are entitlements a person holds simply by being human, before and apart from any government. Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, 1791) defined them as those which appertain to man in right of his existence. The idea's decisive move was to turn an old doctrine of natural law, which imposed duties, into one of…

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