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{{short description|Distinction between rights entailing or not entailing obligations}}
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{{Rights |Distinctions}}
 
Some [[philosophy|philosophers]] and [[political science|political scientists]] make a distinction between '''claim rights''' and '''liberty rights'''. A ''claim right'' is a [[rights|right]] which entails responsibilities, duties, or obligations on other parties regarding the right-holder. In contrast, a ''liberty right'' is a right which does not entail obligations on other parties, but rather only freedom or permission for the right-holder.<ref>{{Cite web |urllast=http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/rights.htmlMay |titlefirst=THEWilliam DIFFERENCEE. BETWEEN|date= A|title=The RIGHTDifference ANDBetween Aa LIBERTYRight byand Prof.a WilliamLiberty E. May|websiteurl=http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/rights.html |accessurl-datestatus=2018-06-12dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128064105/http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/rights.html |archive-date=2019-01-28 |urlaccess-statusdate=dead2018-06-12 |website=Christendom Awake}}</ref> The distinction between these two senses of "rights" originates in American jurist [[Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld]]'s analysis thereof in his seminal work ''Fundamental Legal Conceptions, As Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays'' (1919).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/2005/9.html|title=Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: An Essential Approach to a Conceptual & Practical Understanding of the Nature of Rights - [2005] MurUEJL 9|website=classic.austlii.edu.au|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>
 
Liberty rights and claim rights are the inverse of one another: a person has a liberty right permitting him to do something only if there is no other person who has a claim right forbidding him from doing so; and likewise, if a person has a claim right against someone else, that other person's liberty is thus limited. This is because the [[deontic logic|deontic]] concepts of obligation and permission<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|last=Tappolet|first=Christine|date=2013-02-01|encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of Ethics|publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd|language=en|doi=10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee118|isbn=9781405186414|chapter=Evaluative vs. Deontic Concepts}}</ref> are [[De Morgan dual]]; a person is permitted to do all and only the things he is not obliged to refrain from, and obliged to do all and only the things he is not permitted to refrain from.
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==External links==
*[httphttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/#2.1 The Form of Rights: The Hohfeldian Analytical System, ''Rights'' section 2.1], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*[httphttps://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hum-rts.htm/#SH3b Claim Rights & Liberty Rights, ''Human Rights'' section 3b], Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190128064105/http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/rights.html ''The Difference Between a Right and Liberty''], Professor William E. May
*[http://%5Bhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2465148%5D, ''How to do Things With Hohfeld'']{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 78 Contemporary Legal Problems 185 (2015), Pierre Schlag
 
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