substantive right

A basic right, such as life or liberty, seen as constituting part of the order of society and considered independent of and not subordinate to the body of human law.

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"Substantive rights," are basic human rights possessed by people in an ordered society and includes rights granted by natural law as well as the substantive law. Substantive rights involve a right to the substance of being human (life, liberty, happiness), rather than a right to a procedure to enforce that right, which is defined by procedural law.

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