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Rights

CBSE · Class 11 · Political Science

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1. Meaning of Rights

  • A right is essentially an entitlement or a justified claim.
  • Rights are what a person is entitled to as a citizen, as an individual, and as a human being.
  • Not everything a person wants can be called a right.
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2. Natural Rights and Human Rights

  • In seventeenth and eighteenth century political theory, rights were said to be given by nature or God and derived from natural law.
  • Natural rights are inalienable and cannot be taken away because they are not conferred by ruler or society.
  • Natural rights theorists identified exactly three natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
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3. Kant and Human Dignity

  • Immanuel Kant was an eighteenth century German philosopher.
  • Kant argued that human beings possess dignity, not price.
  • What has a price can be replaced by something equivalent; what has dignity has no equivalent.
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4. Legal Rights and the State

  • A Bill of Rights is enshrined in the constitutions of many countries.
  • In India these are called Fundamental Rights.
  • Legal and constitutional recognition gives rights special status in society.

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