[Helmet]

The opposite actually. Start with John Locke and work your way up to Nozick.

Individual have rights and:

"So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do."

[jbooth]

How's that work in practice?

"Am I being detained?!"

"You can't mug me, I have a right not to be mugged!"

It's not a law of nature. The laws of nature are things like "the strongest take what they want" and "cannibalism not only feeds you, it removes competitors from the food chain!". Inalienable rights must be enforced in order to exist.