Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, p. 68.
“Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights.”
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VI : Presumptive Rights, p. 58.
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“It is a Reasonable presumption that a man who sleeps upon his rights has not got much right.”
Ex parte Hall; In re Wood (1883), L. R. 23 C. D. 653.
Source: Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926), Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 32, p. 73.

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319 U.S. 638
Judicial opinions, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Context: The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

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