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Definition of Rights
1. right [v] - See also: right
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rights
Literary usage of Rights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United by Elisha Mulford (1870)
"These may invade the whole sphere of natural rights, and when encroaching upon
them, become in reality the ancient wrongs of a people. ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"NOTION OF rights IN THE UNITED STATES.' No great people without a notion of
rights.—How the notion of.rights can be given to a people. ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"NOTION OF rights IN THE UNITED STATES. No great people without a notion of
rights.—How the notion of rights can be given to a people.—'Respect of rights in ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They are distinguished from natural rights, which would exist if there were no
... Johnson, distinguishing civil from political rights gives the following ..."
5. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"THE DELAWARE BILL OF rights OF 1776 ALTHOUGH the Delaware constitution of 1776
expressly mentions a bill of rights, declaring that " no article of the ..."
6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"NOTION OF rights IN THE UNITED STATES. No great People without a Notion of
rights.—How the Notion of rights can be given to a People.—Respect of rights in ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Public as well as private rights may be either antecedent or remedial. ...
Antecedent private rights in rent, available against the entire world by those ..."
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