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One of the shocking things I learned in law school is how thoroughly our heritage of natural rights - left us by John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers and embodied in the foundational Declaration of Independence - has been scrubbed out of any instruction about the law.In my Jurisprudence class, the philosophy upon which the nation was founded and the US and state constitutions were designed to protect - natural rights - was presented briefly as a quaint, outdated curiosity.The only reading we were given that employed natural law thinking was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail of April 16, 1963. On this MLK Day, it is well worth the read. It beautifully calls upon our nation's philosophical heritage and applied it to the events of the day. Would more people take MLK's example, today.https://letterfromjail.com