| A | B |
| civil rights | fundamental rights belonging to each member of society |
| consent | agreement |
| human nature | traits of personality and character all human beings have in common |
| law of nature | in natural rights philosophy, this would prevail in the absence of man-made law, and contains universal obligatory standards of justice |
| legitimate | to make lawful |
| natural rights | the doctrine that assumes that human beings had rights in a "state of nature" and created government in order to protect those rights |
| political rights | all the implicit and implied rights for a citizen in a free society |
| social contract | a citizens attempt to solve a social problem by individual action rather than through a political process |
| state of nature | the basis of natural right philosophy , it is the hypethetical condition of people living together in a society |
| unalienable | fundamental rights of the people that may not be taken away |