Free will: the will you were born with to move you forward in life. Every conscious creature has a will in the sense of striving for its own well-being. Free will, in effect, is its own agent.
Me: I see free will (agent causation) as the capacity to begin, end, and bend causal chains. An impossibility in the deterministic universe we live in, and yet, you and me, we do it all the time. So: cause & effect is wrong (and it doesn't seem to be), or man, in some fashion, is exempted from cause and effect, at least some of the time. This, and certain evidences that mind and brain are not one in the same, led me to consider that mebbe man is dual-aspected or dual-substanced.
Natural rights: all the rights you have not restricted by humans, i.e.,the right to be guided by your own free will as compared to someone else's. The only restrictions to natural rights are the limitations nature itself imposes.
As I see it: natural rights is the deep
in the bones intuition a man -- any man, anywhere, any time -- has of his self-possession. He
knows his life, liberty, and property are his, full stop. While such an intuition may be simply a
brute fact it seems far too clean and direct to just be some
adaptive trait. From this, as I call it,
ownness, coupled with man's apparent exemption from cause & effect (free will), I surmise a Person, a Creator, a Prime Mover.
Free will and natural rights are the opposite sides of the same coin...at least, that's how I see it.
Yes. Man is free will with a right to himself, to his life, liberty, and property. It's a package deal.