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traditional right en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
  2. A right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.
    • Having paved the way for viewing the state provision of welfare in terms of providing for people's basic needs, Raymond Plant still faced one difficult opponent: Maurice Cranston, who maintained that there is a crucial difference of nature between traditional rights and social ones. 2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe, page 43:

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