 If group rights could only ever be creatures of law, however, we could not protest that a legal system failed to recognise or respect a group’s right. Proponents of group rights, like proponents of individual rights, have been keen to use the language of rights in arguing about the form that legal, political and social arrangements should take. That implies a conception of group rights that is moral in foundation and that might be used to determine what legal rights groups should have. It is as moral rights that group rights are most controversial. Individual rights are subject to innumerable disputes, but few deny that individuals, as persons or in other capacities, are capable of possessing rights. By contrast, many reject the very idea that groups can possess moral rights and even those who embrace that idea frequently disagree over the sorts of group that can possess them.