Right, said English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, "is the child of law." Something becomes a right only when it is put into a constitution or statutes. Before the Medicare law, senior citizens had no right to federally funded health insurance. Now it is a right. All rights are more or less artificial or "socially constructed." Is something good and desirable automatically a right? Is everything an interest group demands really its right? Beware of overusing the term "rights.