I am a deep believer in the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness but I'm 62 years old and I was not raised in an enlightened era when it came to LGBT issues.
In the great 1858 Senate campaign, Lincoln's rival, Stephen A. Douglas, repeatedly insisted that blacks were not entitled to share in the inalienable rights cited in the Declaration of Independence.
In this polemical tour de force, Leavis expounded his belief in an inalienable connection between literature and morality, with special reference to the work of just five great novelists, his chosen representatives of "the great tradition" – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence.
But the truth is that our belief in the inalienable right to drive is at the heart of our problems.
Nearby, in "Coyote Inalienable," from 2013, a soldier becomes a kind of Christ, hanging high on a wall, its arms extending outward, as if in a blessing.
As much as I love Cather's writing, I will never know what it means to live a life in one inalienable place.
This being California, each constituency believes in its inalienable right to the road, and it is not unusual to see a logging truck tailgating a stubborn bicyclist on a plunging downgrade.
"Modern German Duty: The Obligation to Play" (Letter From Europe, July 2) struggles to explain the contrast between the European belief in "an inalienable right to an idle August" and the contentment with which most Americans seem to accept their smallest allotment of leisure in the developed world.
This remark sounds horridly selfish, but Damasio (2003, p. 171), following Spinoza, remarks that the drive for self-preservation "leads to virtue because in our inalienable need to maintain ourselves, we must, of necessity, help preserve other selves".
