Comments on: A Little Politics, To Start http://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com/2012/01/20/a-little-politics-to-start/ "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?" Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:37:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Brian http://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com/2012/01/20/a-little-politics-to-start/#comment-4 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:37:14 +0000 https://www.jamesjheaney.com/decivitate/?p=12#comment-4 The latter two questions, if you don’t mind. I know the secular NR person’s answer (being somewhat in that camp), and I’ve heard a few interesting deistic and theistic accounts of natural rights. Whence comes the Catholic approach? Or at least yours?
Actually, I’d be interested in your shortest, most concise list of inalienable rights also. I think that a most interesting and challenging task,

]]> By: BCSWowbagger http://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com/2012/01/20/a-little-politics-to-start/#comment-3 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:34:03 +0000 https://www.jamesjheaney.com/decivitate/?p=12#comment-3 Oh, sure, go straight for the hard ones. Even Jefferson carefully avoided actually answering this, and he lived in a time when there was still basically consensus on the origin of rights.

I’m not sure what you’re asking, though: for an enumeration of inalienable rights, the origin of inalienable rights, or just how inalienable an “inalienable” right really is?

]]> By: Brian http://ropersanchor.jamesjheaney.com/2012/01/20/a-little-politics-to-start/#comment-2 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.jamesjheaney.com/decivitate/?p=12#comment-2 Hey James! It’s Brian. Nice blog you’ve here. One question: what constitutes inalienability in a right?

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