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  2. Noblesse oblige - Wikipedia

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    Noblesse oblige is generally used to imply that wealth, power, and prestige come with responsibilities. In ethical discussion, the term is sometimes [citation needed] used to summarize a moral economy wherein privilege must be balanced by duty towards those who lack such privilege or who cannot perform such duty. Recently, it has been used to ...

  3. Rights - Wikipedia

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    A liberty right or privilege, in contrast, is simply a freedom or permission for the right-holder to do something, and there are no obligations on other parties to do or not do anything. [3] This can be expressed in logic as: "Person A has a privilege to do something if and only if A has no duty not to do that

  4. Privileges or Immunities Clause - Wikipedia

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    The primary author of the Privileges or Immunities Clause was Congressman John Bingham of Ohio. The common historical view is that Bingham's primary inspiration, at least for his initial prototype of this Clause, was the Privileges and Immunities Clause in Article Four of the United States Constitution, [1] [2] which provided that "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges ...

  5. Civitas - Wikipedia

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    It is the law that binds them together, giving them responsibilities on the one hand and rights of citizenship on the other. The agreement ( concilium ) has a life of its own, creating a res publica or "public entity" (synonymous with civitas ), into which individuals are born or accepted, and from which they die or are ejected .

  6. Claim rights and liberty rights - Wikipedia

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    Hohfeld's original analysis included two other types of right: besides claims (or rights proper) and liberties (or privileges), he wrote of powers, and immunities. The other two terms of Hohfeld's analysis, powers and immunities, refer to second-order liberties and claims, respectively.

  7. International legal personality - Wikipedia

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    With the acquirement of personality comes privileges and International rights and responsibilities. International Legal Personality is inherent capacity of states and it is provided by basic legal acts (Statutes or "Constitutions") or International Conventions to international organizations.

  8. Philogyny - Wikipedia

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    An example of philogyny is the promotion of women, #hypewomen, which includes domestic bliss by equal share of household responsibilities and, in its most greatest possible forms, philogynist stability, female sovereignty, autonomy and dignity. Philogyny also often operates through financial, economic and political advancement, affirmative ...

  9. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    This idea of a social contract – that rights and responsibilities are derived from a consensual contract between the government and the people – is the most widely recognized alternative. One criticism of natural rights theory is that one cannot draw norms from facts. [37]