PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Test Validity, Tyrant, John Stuart Mill
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Idea of rights and freedoms only lang of poliics that makes sense to most of us. We live in a liberal democraic regime sec 1 talks about limits imposed by law in a free and democraic society (paricular type of regime that places emphasis on rights and freedoms of individuals) Regime is what deines a poliical community and gives its basic idenity, character, idenity, what consitutes a well- ordered society. Liberal democraic regimes place primacy on the rights and freedoms of individuals. Some of implicaions that come from acceping idea that what deines individuals and what should be focus of a well- ordered society is enhancing rights and freedoms of individuals (basic assumpion, don"t even q it) Liberal democracies like can, us, fr, and the whole lang of rights and freedoms emerge at a speciic ime and speciic places in hist. Part of outlook that can be described as the mod outlook (modernity: emerges around 17th c.