Political Science 3334E Chapter Notes - Chapter Jones&Cranton: Negative And Positive Rights, Moral Rights, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series
16 Feb 2018
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Some politicians have a vested interest in keeping talk about human rights as meaningless as possible. Cranston is going to argue that a respectable concept of human rights has been muddied and debilitated in recent years by an attempt to incorporate into it specific rights of a different logical category. Both burke and bentham regarded talk about the rights of man as meaningless: burke was the conservative, bentham was the radical. General positive rights rights that are enjoyed and fully assured to everyone living under a given constitution. Traditional rights and liberties includes lost positive rights as well as existing positive rights. No(cid:373)i(cid:374)al (cid:858)legal(cid:859) (cid:396)ights need to be made positive rights. Positive rights, liberties and immunities of a class of persons include all rights which are attached to membership of a given category. Positive rights, liberties and immunities of a single person rights of the president, rights of a king.
