They held life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to be "unalienable rights" possessed equally by all members of their new nation.
We like to think of these as absolutes: that there are distinct lines between humans and animals, and that certain "human" rights are unalienable.
THE pursuit of happiness, runs one of the most consequential sentences ever penned, is an unalienable right.
ONE of the lesser-known aspects of the Declaration of Independence is the unalienable right to cross a golden bridge on a soft late summer night and pay your way into a ballpark and buy a beer and a hot dog -- or a tray of sushi, for that matter -- and take a seat with a great view of an old American city.
Houston didn't directly address the question of whether government organizations are justified tapping data from social networks and other big tech companies, or the ethics of whether privacy is an unalienable right, and instead focused on the user experience.
Belief, like love, is an unalienable right; it can't be wrestled away, only relinquished.
So why, now that Morocco has been illegally occupying this country for 38 years and considering that under UN law "freely expressed self-determination is an unalienable right," did the international powers not step in and demand a referendum on independence, akin to those that all other African states had been granted?
The unalienable rights that are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence could just as well have been inalienable, which means the same thing.
"It seems that there's this unalienable right to travel".
"There seems to be this unalienable right, that I don't understand, that if you're ever assaulted by a juvenile, you can never let anyone know who they are".
