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	20th WCP: Inalienable Rights: A Plea for Open Options
		It follows that if Sue and Bill have inalienable rights to life, they have a moral obligation to opt for life and, therefore, are not acting in a morally defensible way if they, on grounds of their preferences alone, attempt to persuade others to assist them in comfortably ending their lives.
		Inalienable rights are rights entailed by very basic moral principles which must be respected (except in cases where punishment is morally required or where the temporary suspension of rights is necessary for reason justified by natural law—as in cases where the social order would otherwise be irreparably damaged (viz.
		An inalienable right would never be a right to possess this or that particular object, but would instead be a right to live and move within a given setting to acquire certain kinds of objects from a wide range of objects of types essential for worthwhile human existence.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Huma/HumaLuci.htm (2514 words)

	CRL Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 6 July 1989
		Inalienable vs. Alienable Possession Even though Guarani does not have special morphol- ogy to distinguish alienable and inalienable nouns, some formal aspects indicate that there is such a dis- tinction.
		Contrast 3b and 4b, which represent normal expressions of alienable posses- sion with the ungrammatical sentences in 3a and 4a, in which inalienable possession is encoded with a verb of possession.
		Possession and Different Inalienable Noun Classes Before I discuss the grammatical import of the se- mantics of the different classes of inalienable nouns, a few words are in order about their semantic differ- ences.
	crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/3-6/Article1.html (5386 words)

	Inalienable Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If there were inalienable rights, the government or anyone else would not need to try to uphold them, you would always have them no matter what.
		That humans possess Inalienable Rights is a powerfully Romantic notion, cooked up by men living in a powerfully Romantic age, applied here embarking on a powerfully Romantic enterpise.
		Inalienable rights are a moral right, not a legal right.
	clublet.com /c/c/why?InalienableRights (1031 words)

	The Electronic Journal of the Department of English
		Interest in inalienable possession dates at least as far back as Lévy-Bruhl’s (1914) study in which he noted that in Melanesian languages there are different grammatical structures for nouns designating inalienable as opposed to alienable phenomena.
		Inalienable nouns typically refer to ‘permanent’ features such as body parts and kinship relations, and are accompanied in many of the world’s languages by a variety of specific morphological and syntactic features which are not used with nouns referring to non-permanent (alienable) phenomena.
		The concept of inalienability does not make it clear what is really going on here.’ And likewise, for German, Neumann (1966: 745) states: ‘The aim of this study is to show that the constructions used in the grammar of body parts in German...
	www.eng.helsinki.fi /hes/Corpora/inalienable_possession2.htm (5006 words)

	About The CyberNation of Freedom - Liberation of the Individual
		The democratic governments of the physical nations were created to defend the inalienable rights of the individual, yet these governments have used this mandate to expand their control over the individual by infringing upon the very rights they were empowered to protect.
		Governments of the physical nations do not have the right to make a claim upon an individual or infringe upon an individual's inalienable rights merely because he or she was born within the current arbitrary borders of that nation.
		The second, the 'Issues of Morality', are those which are outside the bounds of the protection of the individual's inalienable rights and the law and order of society, and therefore are the responsibility of each individual to decide according to his or her personal and religious beliefs.
	www.cybernationoffreedom.com /liberation.html (9129 words)

	CBA » Meet the People of CBA
		As caretaker of the family’s inalienable wealth, she is responsible for ensuring that the sacred objects pass forward with the stories of origin and rituals of use and preservation.
		The fear of loss, hovering in stories of inalienable objects, resonates with stories of objects intended for inalienability that instead were confiscated by Cuban immigration officials; stolen out of jewelry boxes; broken in moving, ritual use or display; or severed from future family by broken family ties.
		Inalienable wealth is not an interpersonal, indexical symbol (Grayson and Shulman 2000) as are keepsakes, but in Pierce’s terms an iconic one.
	www.cba.unl.edu /people/article.asp?ID=105 (8725 words)

	Declaration of Independence (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ideas and even some of the phrasing was taken directly from the writings of John Locke, particularly his Second Treatise on Government, titled "Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government." In this treatise, Locke developed the important idea of government by consent.
		It has also been used as the model of a number of later documents such as the declarations of independence of Vietnam and Rhodesia.
		The original draft also used the word "inalienable", which was changed to "unalienable" (according to the OED, the two words are synonyms).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence (2293 words)

	Cuz We Said So: Inalienable
		I am not the arbiter on this, but if any right is inalienable, I would have to say this one is. If someone knows how to challenge that assumption and wishes to do so, let him come forth.
		What's interesting about this post is that you begin by saying that people cannot surrender their inalienable rights, then conclude with an example of a people (the Germans) who did just that.
		The Declaration of Independence (whence comes your use of the word "inalienable") is not a treatise on the nature of existence, but a statement of belief of the founding fathers.
	www.cuzwesaidso.com /archives/000431.html (1162 words)

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		Inalienable Family Objects Affirm a Social Order and Reality Some informants contend that family heirlooms “hold” and “remind” members’ of their social identity (see illustration 2 in the table).
		Inalienable Wealth is Fragile Informants who espouse the view that objects should be kept, also offer stories of objects that should have been, but were not kept.
		Inalienable wealth may be distributed among future caretakers, competed for, or withheld.
	www.cba.unl.edu /peopledocs/FamilyHeirloomsJCRDec2004_1032_235.doc (11075 words)

	Inalienable Rights
		Inalienable is not just a pretty word, inserted by Thomas Jefferson into the Declaration of Independence for rhetorical effect.
		Insistence on the inalienability of rights was a way of opposing such contracts, and it was this opposing conception-the idea of rights held in trust and the right-bearer as steward rather than owner of his rights-that triumphed in works of John Locke and the formulations of Jefferson.
		But it is disturbing that Meares and Kahan do not even raise these questions, and that the only thing they have to say to the issue of inalienability is that it is unacceptably "paternalistic"-as if the indefinite waiver of a right by a whole class of persons had no effect on anyone but themselves.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR24.2/waldron.html (1128 words)

	[fsl-discuss] Inalienable rights (Fwd: [RCumbow@GrahamDunn.com: RE: Destruction of work and the doctrine of waste]) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The right to life, liberty = and the pursuit of happiness, by contrast, are in theory inalienable = because, in our founding fathers' view, those rights inhere in a human being by = reason of their endowment by a Creator, and cannot be transferred to any other person.
		Such uses of inalienable may = be inalienable to lawmakers and judges and the governments who are = enforcing, creating or intrepreting such laws, but inalienable human rights are of = a higher authority than law, the rule of law, lawmakers, rulers, jailers, judges, and kings, etc..
		Inalienable, then means rights which are above the law, = above the control of congress and outside of the reach of government, like = the right to the pursuit of happiness, the right to life, and the right to ungated knowledge, information and the tools to use it.
	alt.org /pipermail/fsl-discuss/2002-March/000223.html (1505 words)

	Stand to Reason Commentary - Slavery, Abortion & Inalienable Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It certainly isn't anything about their physical body because we would claim that all men are created equal in the context of this discussion in the Declaration.
		It is the fact that they are human beings that allows us to acknowledge the endowment by God of their inalienable rights.
		Therefore, any human being has those inalienable rights regardless of the kind of physical development that they happen to be in at the time.
	www.str.org /free/commentaries/abortion/slave.htm (2144 words)

	Capital Punishment
		The problem with this viewpoint, however, is that it focuses almost exclusively on attempting to define the adjective "inalienable" and very little on the noun "rights." While he does state he does not have space to defend a theory of natural rights, I believe he errs in not offering a definition of "rights," at all.
		If human life is the basis for "defining and sanctioning one's freedom of action in a social context," one must then specify what actions are necessary for sustaining that life and asserting that right.
		Thus, the standard which places conditions upon one's inalienable right to life is the very nature of what it means (what is required) to live as a rational, moral human being...in a social state.
	home.earthlink.net /~rdmadden/webdocs/Capital_Punishment.html (1865 words)

	Model Amici Curiae Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights, by Richard Grossman, Thomas Alan Linzey, & Daniel E. Brannen, ...
		Corporations thus lack the authority to deny people's inalienable rights, including their right to a republican form of government, and public officials lack the authority to empower corporations to deny those rights.
		The Revolution thus reflected the understanding that people, otherwise existing in a state of nature, do not relinquish their inalienable rights when governments are instituted, but that governments are instituted specifically to guarantee and protect those freedoms and rights.
		Thus, the founding documents of the States and the United States codify the understanding that governments are instituted to secure inalienable rights possessed by people, including their right to enjoy life and liberty, and the right to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.
	www.ratical.org /corporations/demoBrief.html (12548 words)

	Rights are natural, inalienable and self-evident.
		Inalienable rights: These are rights that cannot be taken away.
		Inalienable rights: At first, it seems logical to believe that once we recognize an ideal right, it OUGHT to be permanent to the individual, and no one else should take it away.
		If natural rightists claim to know a rigid and specific set of rights based on their perfect understanding of science, well, the foolishness of such a claim should be obvious.
	www.huppi.com /kangaroo/L-rights.htm (2108 words)

	4 Soc Phil & Pol 179
		Further, a person's consensual commitment to always obey all the commands of another (or all those commands which are lawful) might be unenforceable because it is never the case that such a commitment is conducive to the pursuit of a good life.
		In fact, the most salient characteristic of inalienable rights may be that, while rights-holders may exercise their inalienable rights for the benefit of others, a rights-holder may never surrender the right to change her mind about whether to exercise such rights or not.
		A fourth reason why some rights may be inalienable stems from a general skepticism that agreements to transfer rights amounting to the control of one's destiny would ever (or very often) be obtained in the absence of incompetence, fraud, duress, mistake, or some other recognized contract defense.
	www.randybarnett.com /4socphilpol179.html (11161 words)

	Jefferson on Politics & Government: Inalienable Rights
		The very foundation of government, therefore, rests on the inalienable rights of the people and of each individual composing their mass.
		The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, is the fundamental statement of what government is and from what source it derives its powers.
		It begins with a summary of those inalienable rights that are the self-evident basis for a free society and for all the powers to protect those rights that a just government exercises.
	etext.virginia.edu /jefferson/quotations/jeff0100.htm (1302 words)

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		INDIAN SELF GOVERNMENT is the inalienable right of the Atlantic Coast Indian peoples to govern their lives and destiny and to administer their internal affairs within their traditional territory.
		INDIAN ORGANIZATION is the inalienable right of the Atlantic Coast Indian peoples to have their own organizations and choose their own leaders without outside interference.
		CULTURE is the inalienable right of the Atlantic Coast Indian peoples to live according to their own manner and to exercise their own values and traditions without outside influence.
	www.cwis.org /fwdp/Americas/miskito.txt (1238 words)

	NGO Network on the Question of Palestine
		The theme of the Meeting, held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, was “Implementing the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – The role of Governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society”.
		On 7 February, at the opening of its 2005 session (284th meeting), the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People elected its Bureau composed of Amb.
		The main UN forum where all NGOs interested in the Palestine issue can meet is that provided by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
	www.un.org /Depts/dpa/ngo (325 words)

	Unalienable Rights vs Inalienable Rights
		You can surrender, sell or transfer inalienable rights if you consent either actually or constructively.
		Inalienable rights are not inherent in man and can be alienated by government.
		We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
	www.gemworld.com /USA-Unalienable.htm (2743 words)

	Schiller Institute --The Inalienable Rights of Man
		That all human beings on this planet have inalienable rights, which guarantee them life, freedom, material conditions worthy of man, and the right to develop fully all potentialities of their intellect and their souls.
		Fight for the inalienable rights of all people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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	www.schillerinstitute.org /about/inalienablerights.html (651 words)

	Communications From Elsewhere » Inalienable? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We give thanks for our families and loved ones, for the abundance of our land and the fruits of labor, for our inalienable rights and liberties, and for a great Nation that leads the world in efforts to preserve those rights and liberties.
		OK - the OED says “inalienable” means “not alienable; that cannot be alienated or transferred from its present ownership or relation.” The “cannot” in that definition means what it says - CANNOT.
		Re: Josh’s questioning of this context for the phrase “inalienable rights.” I suggest Benny and other readers who imagine concern for language is incidental (or even silly) take a look at Orwell’s brilliant essay on language and politics (written in 1946, and even more relevant now than it was then).Here’s how it begins:
	www.elsewhere.org /journal/archives/2002/05/01/inalienable (1349 words)

	inalienable - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Inalienable : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include inalienable: inalienable noun, inalienable possession, inalienable right, inalienable rights
		Words similar to inalienable: inalienability, inalienably, unalienable, unforfeitable, imprescriptible, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=inalienable (183 words)

	Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
		Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
		Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
	www.un.org /Overview/rights.html (1587 words)

	The Inalienable Right to Self-Medication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What’s lost in discussion of Rush Limbaugh’s alleged illegal use of painkillers is the inalienable right to medicate oneself, which is contained in the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
		But as some conservatives say about the right to keep and bear arms, a right is a right even if the government doesn’t recognize it.
		Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation, author of Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State, and editor of Ideas on Liberty magazine.
	www.fff.org /comment/com0311b.asp (674 words)

	Scientology: The Creed of the Church of Scientology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		hat all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance;
		hat all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments;
		hat all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others;
	www.scientology.org /p_jpg/wis/wiseng/33/33-cree.htm (298 words)

	Speciesism vs. Inalienable Rights (Vegan Outreach) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a society, we recognize the basic right to our lives and bodies.
		We consider these rights inalienable, meaning that no one can take them away.
		Society grants humans the right to our lives because of our strong desire to avoid death, and our fear when our lives are threatened.
	www.veganoutreach.org /starterpack/speciesism.html (573 words)

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