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Principle of Rights

Introduction: Rights of Individuals, Groups and Classes

We, as individuals, groups and classes, require liberty and freedom for exercising our choices w.r.t. skills, business or place of residence, to move freely in the country choose our representative in a free and fair election. Liberty and freedom are also required for self-realization and development of our faculties and capacities of expression, speech, belief, opinion, etc. It is needed for self-mastery through protection of life and personal liberty and freedom to pursue our moral, ethical and intellectual ends with dignity and without exploitation or oppression.

Rights, as claims of individuals, groups and classes, are made against either the society or the state. ...

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