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1. What does Dworkin mean by rights in the strong sense? What rights in this sense are protected by the USA Constitution?
   • “If a people have the right to do something, then it is wrong to interfere with them.”
   • Freedom of speech. Demonstrators are allowed to have their demonstrations - giving them freedom to express their opinions, ideas, knowledge, etc. against/ for the state.
   • "The American provides a set of individual legal rights in the First Amendment, and due process, equal protection, and similar clauses."
2. Distinguish between legal and moral rights. Give some examples of legal rights that are not moral rights, and moral rights that are not legal rights.
   • "Legal right is the right of a citizen protected by a constitution."
   • "Moral right is right of a person according to his morality and conscience."
   • Some examples: euthanasia and abortion
3. What are the two models of how a government might define the rights of its citizens? Which does Dworkin find more attractive?
   • First model recommends striking a balance between rights of the individual and the demands of society
   • Second recommends that the government inflates a right.
   • Dworkin finds the second model more attractive because the first one is false in a sense that the right is important but unfortunately not.
4. According to Dworkin, what two important ideas are behind the institution of rights?
   • Act of faith by the Majorities and Minorities