Revista de Ciências Civis e Jurídicas

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Equity Entitled to human rights without discrimination

Abraham Tamir

Though Locke believed natural rights were derived from divinity since humans were creations of God, his ideas were important in the development of the modern notion of rights. Lockean natural rights did not rely on citizenship or any law of the state, nor were they necessarily limited to one particular ethnic, cultural or religious group.Around the same time, in 1689 the English Bill of Rights was created.