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    The Hohfeldian framework distinguishes claim-rights from ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A person does not have a right to something if society ought not take measures to secure that thing for that person.

    The Hohfeldian framework distinguishes claim-rights from liberty-rights, immunities, and powers, none of which are reducible to what society ought to enforce.

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    • 1.Liberty-rights (like freedom to speak) logically differ from claim-rights (like right to be paid), since one permits action while the other obligates others.
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    • 2.Many legal systems recognize immunities and powers (constitutional amendment procedures, contract formation) that lack clear correlates in enforcement obligations.
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    • 3.Reducing all rights to enforceable duties conflates the normative structure of rights with their practical implementation mechanism.
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    • 1.Without enforcement capacity, distinguishing liberty-rights from mere permissions becomes conceptually empty and practically meaningless.
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    • 2.Powers and immunities derive their moral weight from underlying claim-rights they protect; they collapse into enforceability at the foundational level.
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    • 3.The Hohfeldian framework's complexity obscures rather than clarifies rights theory, fragmenting unified moral concepts into unnecessary technical categories.
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