How do natural rights inform debates about immigration and borders

John Locke's theory of natural rights consists of the rights to life, liberty, and property. Every human being has these rights in a state of nature, and they ... Nov 9, 2005 ... Whereas natural law emphasized duties, natural rights normally emphasized privileges or claims to which an individual was entitled. There is ... As Justice Scalia has noted, “the prevailing image of the common law was that of a preexisting body of rules, uniform throughout the nation . . . that judges ... The natural law is the rule of conduct which is prescribed to us by the Creator in the constitution of the nature with which He has endowed us. Both natural law and natural rights are what may be called normative disciplines, by which I mean intellectual constructs used to assess how human beings ought ... Legal scholars and political scientists examine the ways in which the founding generation understood the “unalienable rights” immortalized by the Declaration ... Aug 22, 2021 ... Thomas Aquinas is generally regarded as the West's pre-eminent theorist of the natural law, critically inheriting the main traditions of natural law. Hadley Arkes argues that the "right to choose an abortion" has functioned as the "right" that has shifted the political class from doctrines of natural right. Crystallizing the linkages between the logic of morals and law and a principled approach to adjudication, the Fellowship makes a most wonderful and invaluable ... By Steven J. Heyman, Published on 01/01/21.