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  2. Noblesse oblige - Wikipedia

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    Some critics have argued that noblesse oblige, while imposing on the nobility a duty to behave nobly, gives the aristocracy a justification for their privilege. Jurists Mickey Dias and Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld have pointed out that rights and duties are jural corelatives , [ 11 ] which means that if someone has a right, someone else owes them a duty.

  3. Matriarchy - Wikipedia

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    Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by women. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority , social privilege , and control of property. While those definitions apply in general English, definitions specific to anthropology and feminism differ in some respects.

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  5. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Paine (1731–1809) further elaborated on natural rights in his influential work Rights of Man (1791), [54] emphasizing that rights cannot be granted by any charter because this would legally imply they can also be revoked and under such circumstances, they would be reduced to privileges:

  6. Privilege - Wikipedia

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    Privilege (law), a permission granted by law or other rules; Executive privilege, the claim by the President of the United States and other executives to immunity from legal process; Parliamentary privilege; Social privilege, special status or advantages conferred on certain groups at the expense of other groups, such as: White privilege; Male ...

  7. 45 Times Rich People Were Completely Blind To Their Privilege

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    Redditors have been discussing privileges that wealthy people don’t even realize are “rich people things,” so we’ve gathered some of their replies down 45 Times Rich People Were Completely ...

  8. Elitism - Wikipedia

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    Some synonyms for "elite" might be "upper-class" or "aristocratic", indicating that the individual in question has a relatively large degree of control over a society's means of production. This includes those who gain this position due to socioeconomic means and not personal achievement.

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