There's a nice Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative...
There's a nice Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative...
Imagine a "right to education" law that mandates that a school can not fill up empty classrooms even if it has capacity and even if it offering it to needy students for free. It is a complete looney beans land.
You aren’t owed shit regardless of what some communist at Stanford wants to word salad about.
Are you referring to the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, or the later US package of Constitutional amendments which takes its name from the first and provisions from both the first and the second?
Because if you are referring to the last of those, you are so very, very wrong!
The Bill of Rights was largely inspired by the Magna Carta...
Let’s keep it up by defining rights as things that government is limited by. Not empowered by.
I had assumed you were referencing the American Bill of Rights, being a great example of negative liberties ("Congress shall make no law..."). I just found that confusing since the comment you responded to was talking about the British and Indian governments.