What is a moral right? How does it differ from a constitutional right?

Answer 1

a moral right is something people think is a right because they feel it is so, but there is no law that says you have to do it; a constitutional right is a right protected by the law; sometimes they overlap, sometimes not.

Answer 2

A moral right is something that you are granted the ability to do or not do based upon "morality." This is a tricky concept because the idea of a universal morality is not easily agreed upon. For example, most Americans would agree that the soldiers who killed Nazis in WWII had the moral right to kill, based on the immorality of the Nazi cause. However, there are some people who feel that any killing is wrong, even if it's to prevent more killing; these people would say that even those soldiers lacked a moral right to kill.

A constitutional right, by contrast, is something that you have the right to do or not do based on a grant by a constitution. In the case of the United States (which is what I'm most familiar with, sorry), Constitutional rights are those contained in the U.S. Constitution, most famously in the Bill of Rights and some of the later Amendments.

Answer 3

A moral right is something based on your ethical or moral codes/principles.
Constitutional or fundamental rights are basically legal rights which are embodied in the constitution-like the Bill of Rights found in the amendments to the US constitution (like right to free speech, freedom from torture etc.)

Answer 4

Moral--or more correctly, human--rights are inherant to the individual. That is spelled out in the Declaration of Independance, which says that all are created eequal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.

The Constitution does not grant those rights--it is clearly and explicitly written to PROTECT rigths of the indiviudal, not to grant them. The individual already has thos erights--and has them regardless of what a government--or the Constitution itself, says.

To put it another way, human rigths can be protected--or violated. But they cannot be granted or taken away; they are part of the natue of a human being. Thus, a "constitutional right" is actually only a guarantee that the law protects a specific human right.

Answer 5

Constitutional rights are things that people have agreed upon and put in writing. A moral right is not necessarily protected by the law since everyone doesn't share the same belief system.
ex. constitutional rt - to own a gun
moral rt - don't kill yourself

Answer 6

Think of marriage. It is NOT a constitutional right, at all. But many believe it is their moral right to marry.

Answer 7

A constitutional right is one that is guaranteed by law; constitutional law specifically. For example, the right to practice a particular religion (or not). A moral right is one that society generally agrees upon, but there is no legal provision for. For instance, fidelity.One has a moral right for her/his spouse to be faithful, but there is no legal consequence if he or she is not.

Answer 8

A "moral" right is like a human right. A "constitutional " right is what your Government gives to you.

Answer 9

A moral right is just what you feel or think to be true. there may not be a clear cut law about it. such as a crime of passion or a pre meditated crime. A man could get 5 years for killing aman for walking in on him and his wife. but 10 years if he plotted his death then carried it out

Answer 10

A moral right is based on beliefs, and acts considered rightous, but have no legal implication when not respected.