UNALIENABLE. The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold.
2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable.
Certain natural and unalienable rights of man; the uses and purposes of governments the right of the people to institute or to abolish them; the sufferings of the colonies, and their right to withdraw from the tyranny of the king of Great Britain.
^ The published Declaration uses "unalienable", rather than the now more common "inalienable". This appears to simply be a stylistic issue, and some drafts, notably that by Thomas Jefferson, used inalienable. See: Unalienable / Inalienable ...
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ~s Declaration of Independence>
see also natural right
b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law <one's constitutional ~s> ...
 See also: State, United states, Right, Witness, Person
  
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