"Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence."

"The denial of God conduced to the denial of God-given rights – and that, in turn, conduced to rights becoming eminent…"

"Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere license."

"The leading contemporary non-consequentialist theories are those which are framed in the language of rights. Followin…"

"There is now, more than ever, a strong tendency to advance moral claims and arguments in terms of rights. Assertion o…"

"[P]roponents of the right can simply assert the existence of a right to privacy and, equally validly, opponents can a…"

"[A]t the descriptive level, the intuitive appeal of rights claims, and the absolutist and foreceful manner in which t…"

"[W]e do not believe that there is no role in moral discourse for rights claims. Rather, we content that the only mann…"

"See also JS Mill who claimed that rights reconcile justice with utility. Justice, which he claimed consists of certai…"

"All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights."