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Rights/ Negative Liberties

Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty in Four Essays on Liberty (1969) [restricted access]

This piece lays down the distinction between positive and negative liberties.

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The Stanford Encyclopedia, Positive and Negative Liberty (2003) [open access]

The book can be accessed from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  

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John Rawls, Justice as Fairness (1985) [open access]

See for Rawls’ discussion of the first principle of justice, which he terms the “liberty principle”, particularly when it would be justified to limit basic liberties such as that of speech.

Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977) [restricted access]

The book can be purchased from Google Books.

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Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (1986) [restricted access]

The book can be purchased from Google Books. 

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