[cornelis]

Good legislation follows natural law. Natural law is all about rights.

I can walk with the first one. The last one is a hoot.

[annalex]

a hoot

From Aquinas, (on his feast day):

Law is a rule and measure of acts, whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting.

(Source:Pursuit of Liberty: Question 90. The essence of law )

Righfulness is an attribute of acts.