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Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 02:19 AM by Raksha
are INHERENT, that they belong to the human being simply by virtue of him or her being human, and that they are NOT "granted by societal agreement." While it's true that they can be taken away by societal force, society does not and cannot have the "right" to do this, because it is taking away something it never "granted" in the first place.
"Endowed by their Creator" would have been the normal and expected way of expressing this idea in the 18th century, and I personally have no problem with the choice of words.
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