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  1. See Adrian Bardon, “From Nozick to Welfare Rights,” Critical Review, Vol. 14 (2000).

  2. Ibid., p. 496.

  3. Ayn Rand, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal (New York: New American Library, 1967), p. 322; see also, Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 32–33, and Ayn Rand, “Untitled Letter, Part II,” The Ayn Rand Letter, vol. II, no. 10, p. 169.

  4. See Ayn Rand, “The Nature of Government,” in Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal (New York: New American Library, 1966), Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl, Liberty and Nature, An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., Inc., 1991), Eric Mack, “In Defense of the Jurisdiction Theory of Rights,” The Journal of Ethics, vol. 4 (2000), and Tibor R. Machan, Individuals and Their Rights (Chicago: Open Court Publ. Co., Inc., 1989); see also, the contributions to Tibor R. Machan, ed., Individual Rights Reconsidered (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2001).

  5. See Tibor R. Machan, Initiative—Human Agency and Society (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2000).

  6. Siegfried Van Duffer, “Libertarian Natural Rights,” Critical Review, Vol. 16 (2004), p. 37.

  7. Cf. Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl, Norms of Liberty, a Perfectionist Basis for Non-perfectionist Politics (College Station, PA.: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006).

  8. Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost of Rights (W. W. Norton, 1999), pp. 14 and 19.

  9. See Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

  10. See Tibor R. Machan, Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life (Burlington, VT.: Ashgate, 2004).

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Machan, T.R. What Rights Do We Have?. J Value Inquiry 43, 469–477 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-009-9174-8

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