SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Roland Ritchie, Jab, Individual And Group Rights
23 Oct 2015
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When an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it and adjudge such act to be void. Rights work where people are in a position to press for them; for others they give only the caricature of justice. Substantive equality *midterm exam question: competing conceptions of equality. Equality; (feminists) some degree of utility in respect to the law, (mainstream liberal feminists) or the main purpose of feminism. Wollstonecraft believed that individuals had natural rights to self-determination, which could not be usurped by authority based on arbitrary inherited title and divine right. Equality would result from women"s suffrage because the vote would give women the power to change systems, structures, and attitudes. Social policy, or public policy in general structured to allow individuals to maximize their freedom without jeopardizing the community"s welfare. Problems that inherent in equality as both an analytic tool and as a goal.
