Promises, Rights and Claims

Law and Philosophy 30 (1):51-76 (2011)
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The paper argues that promise rights presuppose independently existing (if not pre-existing) claims. The argument relies on the Bifurcation Thesis, according to which all claims, and all rights, can be exhaustively divided into two categories: capacity based and exercise based

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