Only by recognizing that justice involves the defense of negative rights-prohibitions laid out against others, especially the government, to prevent unwanted intrusions-not rights to be given things, can liberty for all be reconciled with justice for all. And negative rights are precisely what our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, were meant to protect. But those foundational freedoms are being eroded by the ongoing search to "discover" ever more positive rights.
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