The terms, defined
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An unalienable right cannot be transferred, surrendered, given, taken or sold, and that holds even where consent is claimed. It is intrinsic and inherent to the individual. An inalienable right cannot be transferred without consent, which means it can be transferred with it, actually or constructively. Rights of that second kind are not inherent in a person and can be alienated by government. The Declaration of Independence uses the stronger word. Most state constitutions use the weaker one.
It holds it to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It goes on to state the reason government exists at all: to secure those rights, deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. That is a duty placed on federal, state and local government alike.
Free thought is the philosophical position that opinions should be formed on the basis of science, logic and reason, and should not be settled by authority, tradition or dogma. Practising it is called freethinking. The demanding part is that it applies to your own conclusions and to anyone asking you to adopt theirs, including me.
Political freedom, or political agency, has been described as a relationship free of oppression or coercion, as the absence of disabling conditions together with the presence of enabling ones, and as the absence of economic compulsion. It is usually read negatively, as freedom from unreasonable external constraint. It also means the positive exercise of rights, capacities and possibilities for action, including social and group rights, and freedom from internal constraints such as social conformity.
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