REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Basic Law, Negative And Positive Rights, Declaratory Judgment
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Week 7 tutorial 13: study task for chapter 13: human rights. Human rights= rights that every person has, by virtue of merely existing, and that aim to secure for such a person certain benefits or freedoms that are of fundamental importance to any human being. In the beginning, law was only a set of rules written down by an authority that people were obligated to comply with. Now, for a law to be valid, it has to be both laid down and have enough respect and fundamental interests of human beings. Constitutional fundamental rights // human = protect basic interests or freedoms of human beings: historical view: Origin: natural law tradition by the stoics of ancient greece and rome + philosophers. Natural law = above positive law, there is a higher law that protects all mankind and to which positive law should conform. Common ground for different cultures and religions.
