indefeasible

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The real danger is not openness to other cultures or sensitivity to difference but a lack of appreciation for universal values and a taste for extreme, empirically indefeasible ideologies.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2018

The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge—I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers,” said our second president, John Adams.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2015

The Cordillera del Condor and the rest of our territories are inalienable, indefeasible, and we state our decision to defend them to the end.”

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Many senators contend that it is the inalienable and indefeasible right of the people of a State at all times to change their constitution in any manner they think proper.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.

But the authority of religion, and especially of the papacy, was thrown on the side that denied the indefeasible title of kings.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron