As defined, the absolute rights of a person may be reduced to three principal or primary articles:
• The right of personal security, which consists in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of her life, her limbs, her body, her health, and her reputation;
• The right of personal liberty, which consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's inclination may direct, without any restraint, unless by due course of law;
• The right of property, which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all her acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land. |
