God-given right

God-given right

A special privilege or authority bestowed upon someone by a higher power. Many feel that the law prohibits something that is their God-given right.
See also: right
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • feel honored
  • be honored
  • be/feel honoured
  • have the honor of (doing something)
  • have the honour of something/of doing something
  • have a/the right to (something)
  • have a right to
  • right to (something)
  • have a/the right to (do something)
  • a/the right to (do) (something)
References in classic literature
You've been ringing the changes too long on the God-given right to work .
The Strength of the Strong
MICKEY HARTE has backed Sky's coverage of gaelic games and says armchair GAA fans have no "God-given right" to see every big game on free-to-air TV.
Harte: TV a privilege not a right
Pontypool do not have a God-given right to be in the Premiership and it is an insult to those 12 teams to suggest that they do.
Pooler's performance put in perspective
Every life is important every Filipino has a God-given right to safety," the vice president said.
Be like Mary and Joseph, says Robredo in Christmas message
THE Feedback article, 'We must cherish the free press',(04.05.18) for justice, legitimacy and selfdetermination throughout the planet, every human has the basic God-given right to be heard.
Oil and money the root of our trouble
'The hunger and desire is still there but no one has a God-given right to play for England,' he said.
Alastair Cook eager to keep spot against Pakistan
Having a child is not a God-given right and it is not the end of the world if you can't conceive.
Having a child is not a given right
I would be interested to know if these figures are a reflection of the numbers of cyclists who seem to think they have the God-given right to ride on the pavements!
... and keep off our pavements, too! Letters
And now, one Jew has decided that he'd like to spend his Shabbat working, because it's his God-given right. Or, at the very least, his court-ordered right.
Quebec Court Fines Jewish Salon Owner for Forcing Jewish Hairdresser to Take the Sabbath Off
"There are interest groups and individual MPs in this party who think it's their God-given right to rule.
They say..
Brown for refreshing my memory ("Gun ownership a God-given right," June 13).
Letters in the editor's mailbag
"We've no God-given right to win the Europa League.
Red Devils must not be complacent
PHIL JONES has warned his Man United team-mates against complacency - insisting they've "no God-given right" to win tomorrow night's Europa League Final against Ajax.
Jones: We still have a job to do
FOLLOWING the extraordinary council meeting called by the council's Labour Leader George Duggins (CT Article, August 4), with the primary purpose of demanding Coun Williams resign in order to facilitate a by-election in a ward where Labour believe they have a God-given right to rule, could I suggest to Coun Duggins that his statement, "there is nothing legally or constitutionally to make Coun Williams resign, but morally he is compelled to" could have been applied with equal vigour to his own position as Head of Child Services during the horrific and far more disturbing case surrounding the death of little Daniel Pelka.
Leader should look to his own past; LETTERS
The great 19th-century French statesman and political philosopher Frederic Bastiat, in his brief yet magisterial treatise The Law, observed that laws and government are merely the collectivization of the natural, God-given right to self-defense:
What is the proper role of government?