Meaning & use

unalienable rights

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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.

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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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