INTL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Human Security, Middle Ages, Environmental Degradation
26 May 2016
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The inalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that one is entitled to because they are human. During the middle ages, the rights were given by superiors. Charter rights are the opposite of natural law rights. Charter rights: civil liberties guaranteed in a written document, result of political contract, limited to the parties of the contract. The belief that humans have inherent rights that the state has the responsibility to protect: human beings possess right to life, liberty, security of property a. Inalienable; cannot be traded away: only reason to constrain it is to protect the rights of another, primary function of the government is to protect those rights, political life= people + government. Our modern notion of human rights is tied to the colonial experience, and this notion has evolved to cause many disagreements. Difficult to override policy of nonintervention of other states: sovereignty of states requires respect towards institutions of member states.
