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  2. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Preservation of the natural rights to life, liberty, and property was claimed as justification for the rebellion of the American colonies. As George Mason stated in his draft for the Virginia Declaration of Rights , "all men are born equally free", and hold "certain inherent natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or ...

  3. Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the scope of this property interest was not determined by the procedures provided for its deprivation: The Due Process Clause provides that the substantive rights of life, liberty, and property cannot be deprived except pursuant to constitutionally adequate procedures; since the categories of substance and procedure are distinct ...

  4. Right to property - Wikipedia

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    The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often [how often?] classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.A general recognition of a right to private property is found [citation needed] more rarely and is typically heavily constrained insofar as property is owned by legal persons (i.e. corporations) and where it is used for ...

  5. Eminent domain - Wikipedia

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    The property of subjects is under the eminent domain of the state, so that the state or those who act for it may use and even alienate and destroy such property, not only in the case of extreme necessity, in which even private persons have a right over the property of others, but for ends of public utility, to which ends those who founded civil ...

  6. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    Between 2004 and 2013, an estimated. 3,350,449. people were forced from their homes, deprived of their land or had their livelihoods damaged because they lived in the path of a World Bank project.

  7. Virginia Declaration of Rights - Wikipedia

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    Articles 1–3 address the subject of rights and the relationship between government and the governed. Article 1 states that "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which ... they cannot deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining ...

  8. Property - Wikipedia

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    Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, [1] and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of ...

  9. Universal suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Voting is an important part of the formal democratic process. The European Parliament is the only international organ elected with universal suffrage (since 1979).. In the first modern democracies, governments restricted the vote to those with property and wealth, which almost always meant a minority of the male population. [7]