States' rights, as such, were not directly at issue either in the Lopez case or in the decision on Monday.
His rights as such citizen are guarded and must be defended by the United States, and cannot be abridged or impaired by the law of any state.
In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their rights as such.
While the Supreme Court's decision will be about associational rights, rather than gay rights as such, the ruling could have a broad impact on the ability of openly gay people to participate in organizations that want to exclude them.
While it is clear from the Supreme Court's precedents that "fetuses don't have rights as such to be born," Mr. Robertson said in an interview, that is hardly the end of the discussion.
African ethics does not give short-shrift to rights as such; nevertheless, it does not give obsessional or blinkered emphasis on rights.
It is an area of debate in which it is unexpectedly difficult to distinguish the rhetoric of a self-determination vanguard from protectionists or exploiters perhaps, because consumer rights as such are systemically justified within falsely totalizing capitalist ideologies.
They are mathematical objects in their own right, and as such they can be studied independently of particular applications.
