...the difference between equality and equal rights. Men have rights, he wrote, but as civil society is made for the advantage of man. "all the advantages for which it is made become his riffht." The rights of man have no independent theoretical existence. Thev do not preexist and condition...

...it is the better for it. Men do have rights, Burke wrote in the Reflections, but as civil society is made for the advantage of man, "all the advantages for which it is made become his right." The rights of man, this is to say, have no independent, theoretical existence. They do not preexist...

...as benefits. "If civil society be made for the advantage of man," he wrote again in the Reflections, "all the advantages for which it is made become his...law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule." The passage continued in a roundabout fashion to confirm the subject's usual rights to property and...

...the Lockean formula was a less specific and more flexible concept of natural right: "If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. . . . Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that...

...political, economic, and social inclusion in community. ciple a broad scope for rights: "If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages...become his right. It is an institution of beneficence." Each person has "a right to a fair portion of all that society, with all its combinations of skill...

...Reflections. Two pages before, in a passage already cited above in Chapter 4, he had said: "If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right." He then listed these rights in summary terms. Men have a right to live by the rule of law and to do...

...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society t subject, what be truth, as a thing that crosses...of dominion, or to the interest of men that have do justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in public function or in ordinary occupation....

...are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society [government] be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institu40 [Discourse on the Love of our Country, 3d ed. p. 39.] tion of beneficence; and law itself...

...full as far is my heart from withholding in practice... the real rights of men. ..If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages...a right to live by that rule; they have a right to do justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in public function or ordinary occupation....

...those which ate real, and ate such as theit prerended rights would totally destroy. lf civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. lt is an institntion of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a tule. Men have...