{
  "id": "rights.moral",
  "term": "rights",
  "sense": "moral",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "rights",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a condition for people that they are free and that others should not change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "condition.state",
      "people.social",
      "free.unconstrained",
      "policy.governance",
      "change.process",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a persistent social condition of freedom, recognized among distinct entities, is protected by a governing policy against change, a moral right emerges.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "protected freedom",
      "interpersonal claim",
      "normative stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1951 Refugee Convention established legal protections for displaced persons fleeing persecution.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.",
      "domain": "law"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, limited the English king's power to imprison freemen without trial.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "policy.governance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "good.moral",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "license.legal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "right",
    "rights"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added missing 'change.process' and 'others.distinct-entities' which are necessary for the definition; corrected 'free.uncon施策' to 'free.unconstrained'"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rights.moral"
}