The Difference Between Negative Rights and Positive Rights
Here's an awesome explanation by J.P. Moreland, teacher of the theory at Biola University, from his current meeting with Hugh Hewitt: A negative right is correct for me to be protected from hurt on the chance that I attempt to get something for myself. A positive right would be my right to have something put up me. On the chance that medical services are an adverse right, at that point the state has a commitment to shield individuals from keeping me from getting social insurance and dominating me. If social insurance's a positive right, at that point the state has a commitment to give it to me. As I read the New Evidence, the administration's duty, and incidentally, I think the Old Evidence Prophets state this, as well, is I examined the Prophets in the New Testament, the administration's responsibility is to ensure negative rights, not to give positive rights. So as a Muslim I have faith in a minority government. It's not the administration's