Government-framed rights discourse derives rights from what must be left to freedom

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Either, questioning govei:nmental reason, and the necessity of its limitation, in order to identify, through what must be left free, what rights can be recognized and given status within gov- —ernmental practice. Thus, questioning the objectives, ways, and means ofan enlightened and so self-limited government can give rise to the right to property, to possible means of subsistence, to work, etcetera. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 267