creation at the stage of the achievement of the minimal state in the second 141 . Finally, there is the question of th e meaning of “basic human rights”. As identified, within the liberal contractualist tradition, these rights are primarily property rights, with other rights derived from these. For example, the right to claim what one has “mixed one’s labour” with necessit ates the right to continued existence 142 . If the meaning of “basic” is taken to be the first order rights only, then the second order rights are practicalities only. Yet, as identified above, these practicalities may extend significantly beyond the nightwatchman state as traditionally envisaged; the right to contract freely may well necessitate the right to education, to life, to privacy, to freedom of association, to paid holidays, to freedom from slavery and inhumane treatment and many of the other superficially secondary rights, without which, the right to contract freely can neither be achieved nor have any meaning. Within this context, it is also worth noting that an equitable rights claim, such as Nozick, Locke or Mill make, contains two inherent difficulties 143 . The first concerns the justice claim upon which 141 “The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth, by and in the interest of the whole community. THAT IS SOCIALISM.” From the Socialist Part y of Great Britain’s manifesto, at http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlets/manifesto-socialist-party- great-britain-june-12th-1905, and Parekhi, B., “Review: Oakeshott's Theory of Civil Association”, Ethics, Vol. 106, No. 1, Oct. 1995, pp. 158 -186, p. 175 142 Locke, J. Two Treatises of Government , at http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/government.pdf, 2 nd Treatise, Sec. 27, retrieved 19/04/2016 at 13:00 p.m. 143 Nozick, R., Anarchy, State and Utopia , at https://joseywales1965.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/0001_anarchy_state_an d_utopia.pdf, page ix, See Locke, J., Two Treatises of Government , at
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