What are Natural Rights? Why should the State be protecting this?

-The Government should Create and enforce Laws and protect Private Property, Life and Safeguard Natural Rights -Liberals see Individual Rights as natural, and this links with Formal Equality. -Locke talked about 'Life, Liberty and Property' whilst Thomas Jefferson went on about 'Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness' -Equality in Legal Terms would be enough to allow Equality of Oppporuntieis -The State and Society are just Areas where we Pursue our Self-Interest as Individuals rather than Entities in Themselves