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A system of rights

Title
A system of rights / Rex Martin.
Author
Martin, Rex.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description
vi, 439 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Political rights
  • Natural law
  • Rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-432) and index.
Contents
On the logic of justifying political authority -- The concept of rights -- Rights as valid claims -- Human rights -- Civil rights -- Democratic institutions -- Democracy and rights -- Allegiance and the place of civil disobedience -- Justifying coercion : the problem of punishment -- Modes of punishment -- The right of inmates to work -- A system of rights -- Critical justification.
ISBN
0198273746 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
92017833
OCLC
ocm25964769
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries