ABSTRACT
In order to decide whether we have a natural right to liberty it is necessary to look first at what we mean by saying that we have a right to anything. There are many theories about the variously described natural rights, human rights and rights of man. The existence of natural rights has been confidently assumed 1 and equally confidently dismissed as nonsense,2 from which diversity and disagreement we can learn little about rights except that if we do have them it is not in the obvious way we have arms and legs.
