Sentence examples for correlative obligations from inspiring English sources

Possession by an American citizen of the rights and privileges that constitute citizenship imposes correlative obligations, of which the most indispensable may well be "to take his place in the ranks of the army of his country and risk the chance of being shot down in its defense," Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 29.

After all, claim-rights almost always have correlative obligations: if you have a right to religious freedom, then I have an obligation not to violate that right.

It is a chose in action, attesting his right to demand a specific sum at stated intervals, and the city's correlative obligation to pay it.

Possible people have no right to be brought into existence (and we do not have the correlative obligation to procreate).

Being a positive right, the right to protection against violations of one's rights must arise through some special interaction between the agent who acquires the right and the agent who acquires the correlative obligation.

A claim-right includes not only a liberty-right or mere permission (i.e., that a group is justified in seceding in the sense that if they do so they do not thereby act impermissibly), but also a correlative obligation on the part of others not to interfere with the attempted secession.

If there is a legal obligation to educate the developing brain, should there not be a correlative responsibility to those whose brain are in a process of redevelopment and recovery?

The rules of kinship largely determined status with its correlative rights and obligations.

This is not to say, however, that Rand cannot recognize the positive obligations and correlative rights created by contracts, parenthood, and so on.

The obligation-correlative view of authority is not universally accepted.

(See Kelsen 1967, 46 50; cf. Finnis 1979, 250) It may affirm our confidence in the obligation-correlative view to know that from earliest times philosophical reflection on political authority has focussed on the obligation to obey.