It certainly is intrinsic to the individual person, but just so we're clear, since this question is so fundamentally essential, the right originated with, and was granted by, our Creator. That's why the state, nor any man, can legitimately, rightfully, lawfully, alienate it.
-- Samuel Adams, the Rights of the Colonists "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..." -- The Declaration of Independence "Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."
Correct. I’m just stating his position. Although I will say that even those of us who hold the natural rights view of things are on a little bit of a slippery slope since most of us have accepted that the government has some sort of legitimate power to place limits on that right, even at the federal level.