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Cockney Rhyming Slang

is a legally enforceable instrument for the protection of its claimants.

legally enforceable instruments for the protection of their claimants' (Sunstein 1995: 739)t rights pertain to 'important human interests' (ibid.,736).

is inalienable. That is, individual rights are not subject to a public vote... a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority... the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote... a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority... the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

is possessed to the point where one has nothing else to lose. Even if in a besieged town, for even then, one can inflict loss on the enemy by destroying oneself and burning down the town.

Of the rights of the weaker. If someone, a besieged town for instance, submits under conditions to a stronger force, the counter-condition is that one is able to destroy oneself, burn the town down, and thus inflict a great loss upon the stronger. For this reason there here arises a kind of equalization on the basis of which rights can be established. The enemy derives advantage from preserving them. To this extent there also exist rights as between slaves and masters, that is to say to precisely the extent that the possession of the slave is useful and important to his master. Rights originally extend just as far as one appears valuable, essential, unlosable, unconquerable and the like, to the other. In this respect the weaker too possess rights, but more limited ones. Thence the celebrated unusquisque tantumjuris habit, quantum potentia valet (or more exactly:quantum potentia valere creditor).* (nietzsche 'human all too human' 50)

is preceded by and is subordinate to an obligation in that a right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds ...

is situated not in the individual, but within legal and political institutions that embody freedom and secure rights for the individual.

Where Taylor focuses on the need for common conceptions of the good, Hegel seeks to strengthen those institutions and mediating associations that allow freedom. Rights for Hegel are situated within institutions that embody freedom. As Vasanthi Srinivasan observes, 'The unencumbered self is countered not by replacing a politics of rights with a politics of the common good but by restoring the immanent reason within the institutions that secure rights.

is situated within institutions that embody freedom.

institutions and mediating associations that allow freedom. Rights for Hegel are situated within institutions that embody freedom.

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