41.   Pragmatism is a skeptical conception of law because it rejects genuine, nonstrategic legal rights.

42.   But it does not take legal rights seriously.

43.   Lawyers who think that judges should take a pragmatic attitude toward legal rights sometimes say the community has actually decided that they should, at least tacitly.

44.   Surely there is no convention that judges may adjust their views about legal rights for purely strategic reasons.

45.   So if we want to support pragmatism on the second, political dimension, we must accept and then exploit its central feature, its skepticism about legal rights.

46.   The fact that a true pragmatist rejects the idea of legal rights is not a decisive argument against that conception.

47.   For it is not self-evident that the idea of legal rights is attractive.

48.   As the law stands the squatters had legal rights to live in their home as long as they had not forced entry.

49.   British workers had the worst employment protection laws, and the UK was the only EC state where there was no legal right to paid annual holidays.

50.   The only legal right she had was to complain about the beatings when she could stand them no more.