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  • Theories of Rights

    Edited by C.L. Ten ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Rights
    To those who invoke them, rights are powerful instruments for settling arguments in favour of the right-holders. But the nature, provenance and justification of rights are uncertain and disputed and there are doubts about whether rights should play a distinctive and fundamental role in moral and political discourse. More recent disgreements have centred on group rights and on whether rights have a ... Read more

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  • The Nineteenth Century

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