Natural law and Natural rights are derived from the essence of the human soul and allow us to have rights based on that contingency alone. Since we are human beings, are intelligible, have the ability to reason and differentiate good from bad, we are endowed with certain liberties. These rights hold to be universally true, found in all cultures and are omnipresent. There was no start to these rights but they are understood to be permanently true. Natural law does not consider government or politics. In other words, the laws of nature are not subject to rulers or directed by opinions. They are, instead, based on inherent features of the human mind and universe. In turn, America’s government and politics were founded on natural law and natural
