unalienable vs inalienable
Definitions
adjective
- incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
Examples
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
All men -- man and woman -- are created equal, -- equal in _attributes of body and mind_; (for _that_ is the only sense in which they could be _created_ equal;) _therefore_ they are endowed with right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, unalienable, except in their consent; _consequently_ such consent is essential to all rightful government; and, _finally_ and _irresistibly_, the people have supreme right to alter or abolish it, &c.
In a single phrase, these words exempt the sentence's subsequent assertions of human equality and unalienable rights from the claims of traditional conduct, metaphysical certainty, and scientific proof.
Definitions
adjective
- incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
- not subject to forfeiture
Examples
Inalienable rights are not a reward for responsible behaviour.
Here we find a development of that vision of what Figgis along with others called the 'community of communities' as the basic Christian political model: the community of communities, the network of networks, standing with, alongside, the state, not 'franchised' by the state or controlled by the state, but representing that – as Figgis would have seen it – inalienable liberty of the agent, the citizen, to work cooperatively and live and understand cooperatively.
Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear.
