CategoryChristina Ge

Positive Rights or Government Entitlements?

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By Christina Ge (CM ’20) There is an inherent distinction between obligations and aspirations. We ought to follow obligations but we strive to achieve aspirations. In a similar way, rights can also be interpreted as obligations or aspirations, or as negative and positive. While some rights in the First Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are inalienable to us by our virtue of...

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