Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Rights

Question:

According to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries political theorists, what are the three natural rights?

Options:

Right to life, justice, and religion

Right to freedom, equality, and justice

Right to life, liberty, and property

Right to work, education, and health

Correct Answer:

Right to life, liberty, and property

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - Right to life, liberty, and property

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, political theorists argued that rights are given to us by nature or God. The rights of men were derived from natural law. This meant that rights were not conferred by a ruler or a society, rather we are born with them. As such these rights are inalienable and no one can take these away from us. They identified three natural rights of man: the right to life, liberty and property. All other rights were said to be derived from these basic rights. The idea that we are born with certain rights, is a very powerful notion because it implies that no state or organisation should take away what has been given by the law of nature. This conception of natural rights has been used widely to oppose the exercise of arbitrary power by states and governments and to safeguard individual freedom.