Real rights are purely negative in terms of what the government has todo - e.g. it merely has to refrain from persecuting you for speakingyour mind (however your free speech right does not impose anyobligation whatsoever on anybody else).
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or one can argue that real rights are positive "Positive liberty consists of the power and resources to act to fulfill one's own potential; as opposed to negative liberty, which is freedom from restraint. "