Second, some citizens have suffered rights deprivations in the past, and as a result, they are entitled to some form of special treatment.Affirmative action programs in the USA have provided special rights for veterans,women, African-Americans, Hispanics and others Considering Hohfeld’s theory, these compensatory rights are temporary ‘immunities’ to equal treatment requirements of law because equal treatment
for these groups has been violated in the past.If affirmative action programs and procedures become permanent rather than temporary, they are no longer compensatory rights butcategorical rights, which are discussed below.Compensatory rights may also involve cash payments (e.g. the federal government in the
USA paid Japanese Americans interned during World War II, and there were German
payments to Jewish emigrants and victims
whose property was stolen).