Lesson 3 Unalienable Rights

Apprentice Scholar Challenge

Intriguing article about rights:

http://www.thesocialleader.com/2010/07/differences-unalienable-civil-rights/


Great definition of Unalienable:

http://www.unalienable.com/


Un vs. In

INALIENABLE. A word denoting the condition of those things the property in which cannot be lawfully transferred from one person to another. Public highways and rivers are inalienable. There are also many rights which are inalienable, as the rights of liberty or of speech.

UNALIENABLE. Incapable of being transferred. Things which are not in commerce, as, public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable in consequence of particular provisions of the law forbidding their sale or transfer; as, pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life and liberty are unalienable.