Phillimore, Lord Keywords: Rights and duties of States | Mots clefs: Droits et devoirs des Etats | ABSTRACT Lord Phillimore begins his course by giving a definition of the State and by presenting the different forms of States, and then outlines two kinds of fundamental rights: original rights and acquired rights. He later insists on the need to distinguish between the existing right and the right that should be established, and presents the right of independence, the right of limits, and the theory of interventio…