Because of political documents such as these, the notion of natural rights became deeply imbedded in modern moral vocabulary. 18th century political documents and discussions of rights focused principally on a small set of foundational rights, such as life, liberty, and happiness. From these, we were to deduce more specific rights. This strategy is the direct result of natural law theories that articulated a few very general principles of natural law, and stipulated that more specific rules should be deduced from these. Natural rights include those listed by Locke, and adventitious rights are those which people in power have over subjects.
Rights are also alienable or unalienable, that is, transferable or non-transferable.
For Paley, rights to specific pieces of property are alienable insofar as they can be taken away. Contrary to Locke, Paley also believes that civil liberties are also alienable to the extent that we can sell our freedoms to tyrants. By contrast, unalienable rights are those that superiors have over subordinates, such as masters over servants. Finally, rights are perfect or imperfect, that is, whether they can or cannot be asserted by force. Perfect rights are those to life and property.