to show how the one originates from the other. Man did not enter into
society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights
than he had before, but to have those rights better secured. His
natural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights. But in
order to pursue this distinction with more precision, it will be
necessary to mark the different qualities of natural and civil
rights.

A few words will explain this. Natural rights are those which
appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the
intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights
of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which
are not injurious to the natural rights of others. Civil rights are
those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of
society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right
pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his
individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of
this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.

From this short review it will be easy to distinguish between that
class of natural rights which man retains after entering into society
and those which he throws into the common stock as a member of
society.

The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power
to execute is as perfect in the individual as the right itself. Among
this class, as is before mentioned, are all the intellectual rights,
or rights of the mind; consequently religion is one of those rights.
The natural rights which are not retained, are all those in which,
though the right is perfect in the individual, the power to execute