Citizens are of course more willing to fight enemy invasion or any other terror that may come to the government in which it lives if he is happy and content with his way of life. In the mind of any government certainly the greatest achievement it can ever have is the allegiance of the people that live within it. Therefore not only is it just governments that need to be and are concerned with the natural rights of its citizens but it is also those governments that are selfish and only thinking of its longevity that realize without the support of it population it can never survive invasion etc. .
"I will conclude by saying a ruler needs to have the support of the populace, for otherwise he has nothing to fall back on in times of adversity.".
[Machiavelli, The Prince 33].
"A wise ruler will seek to ensure that his citizens always, no matter what the circumstances, have an interest in preserving both him and his authority. If he can do this they will be faithful to him." .
[Machiavelli, The Prince 34].
"Sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep, the cornerstone of the national superstructure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you.".
[Douglass What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, 137].
There are events in history that can be turned to as an example of natural rights being hindered by government. In the early existence of the American colonies there was a great deal of governmental abuses of natural right. These abuses range from economic hostility toward citizens of the colonies, to the hindrance of the administration of an organized judiciary within the colony. These obstructive practices are a only few of many that took place in the early settled colonies of the extended British Empire.