re: #19 Charles

I don’t have a hostility to the idea of “natural rights,” per se. However, a broad definition of “natural rights” is definitely not what Coburn was driving at here.

Natural rights — the concept Jefferson was talking about in the Declaration — don’t come from the sky. They’re inherent in our nature. If, for example, we don’t have the natural right of self-defense, then what’s left to us? It’s very disturbing that Kagan doesn’t just come out and say that.