Individual rights are defined as which of the following?

a. the principle of government in which legislative, executive, and judicial powers are assigned to different branches of government
b. the rights of individual people that cannot be taken away by the government
c. a system in which one institution of government can check or counteract another institution
d. the idea that authority and legitimacy of government comes through the consent of the people

b. the rights of individual people that cannot be taken away by the government