 To take an example from the scholarly literature, it is not uncommon to encounter a general statement that all rights are (or at least include) claim-rights (see, e.g., Raz 1986, 166, 173–75; Steiner, 1994, 55; Kramer, Steiner and Simmonds 1999, 9–14). These “all rights are claims” statements are better interpreted as stipulative, rather than as analyses of common usage. “All rights are claims” positions cannot recognize, for example, the rights in the Hobbesian state of nature, in which each person has unlimited privilege-rights of self-defense yet no claim-rights against attack. Neither could an “all rights are claims” theory recognize that the US Constitution gives Congress the sole (power-) right to declare war. The statement that rights are claims is prescriptive for, not descriptive of, usage.