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[[Category:Stephen Holmes]]
[[Category:Government]]
[[Category:Liberalism]]
[[Category:Liberty]]
[[Category:Rights]]
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| text = Authority and liberty are interdependent, not simply opposed. As Kant, among others, made dear, rights (including property rights) are defined and enforced by the state. Referring to "natural rights," Emile Durkheim convincingly wrote that "the State creates these rights, gives them an institutional form, and makes them into realities." To violate liberal rights is to disobey the liberal state. In a sovereignless condition, rights can be imagined but not experienced. In a society with a weak state, such as Lebanon for the past decade, rights themselves are weak or underenforced. Statelessness means rightlessness, as the story of migrating Kurds, Vietnamese and Caribbean boat people, and many others should by now have made abundantly clear.
| cite = [[Stephen Holmes]], "{{Link |The Liberal Idea}}"
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