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  • The Function of Rights: The Will Theory and the Interest Theory

    Main source: Wenar, Leif, Rights, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Function of Rights: The Will Theory and the Interest Theory in the United States From: Introduction to Rights 2.2.1 Conceptual Analysis versus Definitional […]

  • Introduction to Rights

    Main source: Wenar, Leif, Rights, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Introduction to Rights in the United States Rights are entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others […]

  • What Kinds of Entities Can be Legal Right-holders?

    Main source: Campbell, Kenneth, Legal Rights, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . What Kinds of Entities Can be Legal Right-holders? in the United States There has been much dispute amongst philosophers as what to kinds of entities […]

  • Legal Rights

    Main source: Campbell, Kenneth, Legal Rights, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Legal Rights in the United States Legal rights are, clearly, rights which exist under the rules of legal systems. They raise a number of different […]

  • Human rights and international law. Bibliography

    Human rights and international law. Bibliography in the United States The development of human rights for individuals and groups has been a radical departure from a state-system that originally allowed sovereign states to do as they wished at home including treating their citizens as […]

  • Human rights : a reference handbook

    Human rights : a reference handbook in United States Human rights : a reference handbook Nina Redman and Lucille Whalen Table of contents of this book ch. 1. Introduction Human rights: a definition Development of international human rights International law and human rights Current […]

  • Parliamentary law

    Parliamentary law in United States Parliamentary law. Parliamentary Law refers originally to the customs and rules for conducting business in the English and other nations (with some influence in the United States) Parliament; and thence to the usages of deliberative assemblies in general. In […]

  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the United States See also: Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Treaty, Legislation International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Optional Protocol 1 International Covenant on Civil and […]