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jo smith 🇺🇸 · 48w

the direction of GOVT has changed from protecting and deriving its consent from the governed to protecting these new positive rights as opposed to negative rights

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negative rights:
you can’t be stopped from doing things

postive rights:
you get stuff

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jo smith 🇺🇸 · 48w

negative rights: rights that protect individuals from interference by others (e.g. freedom of speech) positive rights: rights that require others to provide something (e.g. right to healthcare)

jo smith 🇺🇸 · 48w

and that need creates agencies to fill those needs

jo smith 🇺🇸 · 48w

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/

jo smith 🇺🇸 · 48w

https://cactus.utahtech.edu/green/B_Readings/I_Berlin%20Two%20Concpets%20of%20Liberty.pdf