---
title: 'Human Rights, or “No Rights”'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James McLeod Willson'
date: 1864-03-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Slavery'
- 'War and Peace'
- 'Atonement'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 8'
- 'Genesis 9'
- 'Philippians 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/willson-1864-human-rights-or-no-rights
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# Human Rights, or “No Rights”

1864 Reformed Presbyterian critique of the "no rights" doctrine: defends human and national rights, supports emancipation, and argues Christ's mediatorial rule (Noahic covenant, atonement).

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