Individual rights are defined as which of the following? (1 point)

Question

• the principle of government in which legislative, executive, and judicial powers are assigned to different branches of government
• the rights of individual people that cannot be taken away by the government
• the idea that authority and legitimacy of government comes through the consent of the people
• a system in which one institution of government can check or counteract another institution

Answer 1

Individual rights are defined as the rights of individual people that cannot be taken away by the government.