Sentence examples for negative rights from inspiring English sources
Negative rights are the more-the-merrier kind.
Their main target is the distinction between positive and negative rights.
Our constitutional tradition is not merely contained in the negative rights found in the bill of rights.
"Palestinians have negative rights". Shahak described the situation of Palestinians as a "manifestation of apartheid in the territories" of Israel.
Western legal theory emphasized the so-called "negative" rights: that is, rights of individuals against the government.
Implied in Bork's position on the Civil Rights Act was the equivalence of positive and negative rights.
"It's too easy to sit back and be negative right now," Manager Terry Collins said.
"He'll say, 'You're hitting negative right now,' " said the all-American setter Alisha Glass, meaning that a player has more errors than kills.
But Taylor rules for monetary policy using current economic conditions generally show that interest rates need to be sharply negative right now.
As a negative right, it would be a right against coercive interference in decisions regarding procreation.
A right against assault is a classic example of a negative right, while a right to welfare assistance is a prototypical positive right (Narveson 2001).
