Latin America's many former guerrillas will be glad to know they can take shelter in a country whose "inalienable principles", in Mr Kirchner's words, include "the constant fight against impunity".
Mogherini was also quoted as calling on Turkey to respect the law, rule of law and democratic conventions, calling them "binding and inalienable principles" which are also the "best way to face the difficulties that Turkey is experiencing".
In Germany, however, the political misfortunes of rulers succeeded, by and large, in ensuring that ancient caste feeling and notions of inalienable right conquered the principles of feudal law.
You can't help thinking about how life is lived amidst desperadoes and extremists, outlaws not from the world in which they govern, but from the notion of civilization perpetrated by the Enlightenment in which reason prevails against passion and the notion of inalienable rights leads to legal principles like due process.
Invoking grand principles about people's inalienable right to privacy is a commercially risky strategy.
"Now, as we move to implement this rule, however, we've been mindful that there's another principle at stake here -- and that's the principle of religious liberty, an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution," Obama said.
In it, the Automobile Manufacturers Associationn announced that it had sent to U.S. Senator David I. Walsh a letter saying that, "Automobile manufacturers stand squarely on the American principle that men have an inalienable right to work".
"This demonstrates a unified and genuine effort on behalf of Iran to change the political atmosphere while adhering to the basic precepts and principles of the Islamic Republic and the inalienable right of Iran to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes".
Gingrich said he would seek support from those who prefer the Declaration of Independence -- and its principle that God endowed men with inalienable rights -- to the "radicalism of Saul Alinsky," an author who championed community organizing, a former occupation of Obama's.
Thought of another way, the drones put wings on the original Bush-era Guantanamo principle -- that Americans have the inalienable right to act as global judge, jury, and executioner, and in doing so are beyond the reach of any court or law.
They sought to discover and act upon universally valid principles governing nature, humanity, and society, including the inalienable "rights of Man," which they treated as a fundamental ethical and social gospel.
