CHAPTER 12
Concept of Rights
INTRODUCTION
A state is known by the rights it maintains, proclaimed Harold J. Laski. The philosophy of rights is the best contribution of liberal theory to political science. The bedrock of rights lies with the US Declaration of Independence (1776) and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Rights are termed as guarantees provided to individuals ‘against the arbitrary action of their state and government’. However, this individualistic notion of rights which emerged from the writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke soon got new iterations and today we are having multiple theories and understandings of rights.
IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
Harold J. Laski - ‘Rights are those conditions of life, ...
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