Property and Right

The concept of Distributed Property is a synthesis of the concepts of Private Property and Collective Property.  But, even if the former of the two is preserved in the synthesis, any modification of the status of Private Property might be objected to on the grounds that it violates some inalienable Right.  Such an objection is raised recently by Nozick, but the concept of Right that is its basis originates in the earliest Modern Political Philosophy.  However, at no stage of this history is the concept of Right itself examined.  Thus suppressed is that a Right is a claim of protection against interference, and hence, is an a posteriori and inherently social concept.  Furthermore, any such protection derives its force from a collectively sanctioned threat of retribution.  So, without that sanction, there is no Right to Private Property, though a Right that is attached to Distributed Property is easy to conceive.