POLSCI 4D06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Rights, International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Negative And Positive Rights

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 4D06
• Professor: Mark Busser

Document Summary

Two covenants: international covenant on civil and political rights (iccpr) and the. Inherent dichotomization of the two sets of rights is problematic: fully belly thesis: the full-belly" thesis is that a man"s belly must be full before he can indulge in the luxury" of worrying about his political freedoms. Yet there is an alternate view that human dignity, or perhaps self-respect," is a fundamental requirement of human nature pg. 469 howard (1983: donnelly argues we should view them as overlapping one another (e. g. cultural rights closely related to individual civil liberties (e. g. religion and public speech)