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[Revised entry by Leif Wenar and Rowan Cruft on June 7, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Rights are entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others (not) perform certain actions or (not) be in certain states. Rights dominate modern understandings of what actions are permissible and which institutions are just. Rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as many…

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