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5692. NATURAL RIGHTS, Kings and.—

These are our grievances, which we have
thus laid before his Majesty, with that freedom
of language and sentiment which becomes
a free people, claiming their rights as
derived from the laws of nature, and not
as the gift of their Chief Magistrate.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 141. Ford ed., i, 445.
(1774)