 The rights that define fundamental principles within these theories are phrased in terms of what the theories’ agents have strong reason to want. So, for example, Rawls states that the role of a citizen’s right of personal property “is to allow a sufficient material basis for a sense of personal independence and self-respect, both of which are essential for the development and exercise of the two moral powers” (Rawls 1993, 298). And Scanlon says that reasonable individuals “have reason to insist … on basic rights, which give them important forms of protection and control over their own lives” (Scanlon 2003, 4).