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nationality
Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or a group of people who are united by a common culture, history, traditions, and awareness of a common origin.
rights
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are an important concept in law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology.
civil and political rights
rights preventing the infringement of personal freedom by other social actors
fundamental rights
rights protected and upheld by law
concession
grant of rights, land or property by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity
right to die
freedom to end one's life
legal capacity
possibility to acquire rights and contract obligations for oneself
Two Treatises of Government
work of political philosophy by John Locke
natural and legal rights
two types of rights theoretically distinct according to philosophers and political scientists
freedom
Freedom is the power or right to speak, act, and change as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving oneself one's own laws".
subjective right
legal position allowing a person to require a certain thing from another person or other persons
economic, social and cultural rights
socio-economic human rights
positive liberty
Capacity to act on one's own free will without internal constraint
feminist ethics
approach to ethics
bill of rights
proclamation of fundamental rights to citizens of a polity
individual and group rights
notion of rights of individuals and collective rights
prerogative
In law, a prerogative is an exclusive right bestowed by a government or state and invested in an individual or group, the content of which is separate from the body of rights enjoyed under the general law. It was a common facet of feudal law. The word is derived from Old French prerogative (14c.), M.L. prerogativa "special right", from Latin praerogativa "prerogative, previous choice or election", originally (with tribus, centuria) "100 voters who by lot voted first in the Roman comitia", from praerogativus (adj.) "chosen to vote first".
right to quote
copyright exception under the Berne Convention
right to repair
legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products
plant rights
notion of rights to which plants may be entitled
unspoken rule
rules that are not written down
Negative and positive rights
rights that oblige either inaction or action
freedom of choice
an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, including a creation, without being constrained by external parties
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
book by Mary Wollstonecraft
security of person
a basic entitlement guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948
right of reply
right to defend against criticism
claim rights and liberty rights
distinction between rights entailing or not entailing obligations
personal rights
the rights that a person has over their own body and personality, including reputation, honour, and privacy
exclusive right
a non-tangible prerogative existing in law
right to development
definitive individual and collective right
argument from marginal cases
philosophical argument for animal rights stating that, since human marginal cases (infants, the senile, the comatose, and the cognitively disabled) have direct moral status, so do animals
air rights
type of real estate ownership right
constitutional right
legal right protected by a sovereignty's constitution
transfer
in property law, the transfer of ownership of a thing from one person to another
student rights
collective rights, freedoms, and protections of students
Rights of Englishmen
Rights of English subjects of the British Crown
Substantive rights
type of legal rights