As stated in the earlier post - the concept of an individual right comes as virtue of being a human. The concept rejects the idea that everything comes from and is allocated by the government. As a human being we have thoughts and ideas. The government does not create these thoughts but the government may attempt to prevent us from communicating them. A just government is created via a social contract and exists with consent of the governed hence we have "rights", we have attributes, that predate the government. Therefore these rights did not come from the government. In fact the govt exists to protect these rights.
Anyway, that in a nutshell is the concept of individual rights - as I see it.