Positive and Negative Rights
And Liberties:
Correlations with Duties
Positive Rights
X has a positive right to Z from Y
[if and] only if
Y has a duty to provide X with Z.
Negative Rights
X has a negative right to Z from Y
[if and] only if
Y has a duty not to provide X with
not-Z.
Liberties
X has a liberty to Z
[if and] only if
X does not have a duty to not to Z.
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 11 June 2006