Natural right the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are natural in origin is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right," Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the enemy of the human race an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls natural...