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There are many things we have a right to expect from a theory of rights: it should explain the point or function of rights; it should illuminate the interconnections between rights and other normative categories, such as duties; it should tell us what kinds of subjects are capable of possessing rights; it should draw useful distinctions among different kinds or categories of rights; it should show how moral rights both resemble and differ from legal (and other institutional) rights; it should give us a test or standard for distinguishing between real or genuine rights and merely alleged or putative ones; and it should help us understand what it is for rights to conflict and how such conflicts might be resolved.
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Sumner, L.W. (2000). Rights, Interests, and Free Speech. In: Friedman, M., May, L., Parsons, K., Stiff, J. (eds) Rights and Reason. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9403-5_3
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