Thinking about negative and positive rights as embedded in real-life litigation will hopefully bolster one’s understanding of not solely the interplay of their purely preceptive and their political components, but especially the point to which adjudicators should yield to administrators. At this junction, the investigation will traverse eight causes and construe four of them as decided on a pure precept crying for rigorous adherence and another tetrad of them as turning on policy, on which the processed leadership deserved a decent degree of wiggle room. Each of these two foursomes will include a couple of controversies (national and supranational, respectively) involving expressive liberties and a parallel pair on sanitary guaranties.