This is an example of the defense of the natural rights of free people (B).
Natural rights are rights which are believed to be so self-evident that they cannot be questioned. The United States Declaration of Independence lists the following natural rights: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
This excerpt defends the natural right to <u>liberty</u>, as exemplified by such phrases as:
- "being of right free;"
- "the love of liberty natural to all men;"
- "enjoy their liberty."
The joint-stock company, in which individuals invested and profited in proportion to the number or shares purchased, was the principal instrument of England's overseas expansion. The first permanent English colony in the New World was the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.
