This power in inalienable.
The first of them to speak anything remotely like this inalienable truth to the powers waiting to belie the poetic hyperbole -- will certainly have my vote.
Since a democratic constitution is a unilateral determination, on the part of an already existing people, of the concrete form of its political existence, the people's constituent power must be inalienable.
The title, while it confers no official power or authority, is inalienable, indivisible, and descends in regular succession to all the heirs under the limitation in the grant until, on their failure, it becomes extinct.
One of the great achievements of modern times, he suggested, was the liberal conception of humanity: the view that there were universal and inalienable human rights, and that the powers of reason could both honor those rights and eradicate the world's evils.
I have a dream today that gay people and lesbians will have a vested and inalienable right to universal marriage equality backed by the power of law.
It means not simply relying on lofty yet hollow platitudes, but actively upholding the core principles of democracy and people power by encouraging and upholding their peoples' inalienable democratic rights.
So, you might say, are "certain inalienable rights".
(Hell, you might even call them inalienable!) It's worth remembering the next time you hear a politician cite public opinion polls in defense of some new law that will give the government more power, and the rest of us less freedom.
Rousseau and Kant are right to claim that reason is inalienable, and that each individual is sovereign in having the power and right to ascertain general moral principles.
