Individual Natural Rights

Where it surfaces

• II

  Emphasizes that a man's natural rights are his own against the whole world, and infringement by any number is equally a crime.

• Chapter III

  Emphasizes that each individual is born with natural rights and cannot be stripped of them without consent.

• IV

  Emphasizes that each person has a natural right to withdraw from government at their discretion, as exercised by the revolutionaries.

• I

  The chapter emphasizes that individuals have natural rights that government violates by forcing consent, taxation, and service without agreement.

• II

  The chapter invokes the maxim that there can be no crime without criminal intent, defending the right to resist perceived usurpation.

• VII

  The chapter asserts the natural right of every non-consenting individual to defend property against a tax-gatherer, equating it with defense against a highwayman.

• VIII

  Argues that a man is under no involuntary allegiance to any government, affirming individual natural rights over governmental authority

• IX

  Political liberty is defined as protection for the weaker party, rooted in natural rights against oppression.

• VI: The Constitution of No Authority

  The chapter asserts that individuals have a natural right to keep their money and refuse consent to government, and that forced taxation violates this right.

• I

  Implied in the rejection of being bound by dead ancestors, asserting the right of each generation to choose its own governance.

• Chapter V

  The argument implies that individuals have not voluntarily surrendered their property, liberties, or lives, and that the Constitution's claim to do so is invalid.

• VI

  Argues that individuals retain the natural right to resist Congress as trespassers when their property or liberty is violated.

• VIII

  The chapter asserts that no tacit understanding or secret ballot can justify depriving an individual of natural rights to property, liberty, or life.

• IX

  The chapter contrasts the false liberty of the ballot with true freedom, implying that individual natural rights are violated by a system that presumes consent without open responsibility.

• XII

  The tax-gatherer claims the right to keep the proceeds of his own actions, asserting individual autonomy against the claims of the secret band.

• XV

  The chapter asserts the primacy of individual conscience and judgment over government commands, arguing that a soldier cannot morally surrender his right to decide on the justice of killing.

• Chapter XVI

  The chapter asserts that individuals cannot be bound by treaties made without their personal, voluntary consent.

• XVIII

  The chapter asserts the right of individuals to defend themselves against secret rulers who rob and enslave them.