Meaning & use
unalienable rights
Fundamental rights that belong to a person from birth and cannot be given up, transferred, or taken away.
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The Declaration of Independence names life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as unalienable rights.
Activists argued that access to clean water should be treated as an unalienable right.
A note on using this word
Unalienable and inalienable mean the same thing; unalienable is the older spelling, famously used in the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
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