 A significant measure of unity and identity might then be essential for a group’s being the kind of group that can bear rights but, if it is, that condition would seem necessary rather than sufficient. Those who question the very idea of group rights do not deny that groups come in different forms or that some exhibit a high degree of unity or that groups can be very important in people’s lives. They deny only that we have reason to ascribe groups, however unified and however significant, the moral properties they must possess if they are to be independent right-holders. So where do proponents of group rights find those properties?