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Right what is in conformity with the rule; the art that generates the law; the phenomenon to apply, tutelary and to normalize the human living together; social science that seeks to administer the justice. In the jurisprudence and the law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something, or to obtain or refrain from obtaining a thing or recognition from civil society. Rights serve as rules of interaction between people, and, as such, they place constraints and obligations upon the actions of individuals or groups (for example, if one has a right to life, others cannot have the liberty to kill). The contemporary notion of rights is universalist and egalitarian. Equal rights are granted to all people. There are two general concepts of rights, the idea of natural rights, which holds that we abtain certain rights from nature that cannot be legitimately modified by any legislative authority, and the idea of legal rights which holds that all rights are arbitrary, created by legislative authority and always subject to change. By contrast, most historical notions of rights were authoritarian and hierarchical, with different people being granted different rights, and some having more rights than others. For instance, the rights of a father to be respected by his son did not indicate a duty upon the father to return that respect, and the divine right of kings to hold absolute power over their subjects did not leave room for many rights to be granted to the subjects themselves. The concept of natural right developed in the School of Salamanca in the late 16th century, and first gained widespread acceptance nearly 200 years later, during the Age of Enlightenment.
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