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An Empire of Reason - What Is a Right?
“Rights” is the most powerful word in American political life — and one of the slipperiest. Everyone claims them, on every side, for opposite things, and almost no one stops to define what a right actually is. Before the season can read the Declaration or the Bill of Rights, this episode builds the dictionary: what a right is, and why property guards every other one.
The answer comes in the founders’ own voices and the voices behind them. Hobbes draws the line between a right and a law — liberty against obligation. Cicero roots the whole commonwealth in securing each man his own. Locke digs…
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