1.  A theory of basic rights is at bottom a political theory, a theory about the nature and limits of state action.

2.  Although opposition to state action to alleviate poverty remained strong to the end of the century, countervailing pressures were growing.

3.  In its extreme form, the domain of appropriate state action is reduced to almost nothing, a perspective usually termed libertarianism.

4.  State action to prevent illegal and unauthorised acts of local authorities.

5.  The best intentions and the wisest council are likely to misfire if entrusted to the care of the machinery of state action.

6.  Thus the First Amendment did not apply to this case since the discharge of the teachers was not a state action.

7.  By limiting state action and expanding autonomous social life, civil society will then have the potential to become a non-state sphere comprising a plurality of public spheres.

8.  Enabling statutes are needed to legitimize state action in new fields by defining broad aims and areas of applicability.

9.  As is often the case voluntary effort preceded state action.