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Full Idea
Right is of two kinds: right to power and right to property.
Gist of Idea
There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property
Source
David Hume (Of the First Principles of Government [1750], p.25)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Selected Essays' [OUP 1996], p.25
A Reaction
These seem to be positive rights. No mention of the right not be to unjustly abused. It is hard to find any sort of radical political thinking in Hume. His empirical scepticism extends to his politics. He approves of modern consitutional monarchy.
Related Idea
Idea 21097 Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume]