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15 - Civil Rights and Liberties

from Part III - Special Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2020

By
Sherif Girgis  and
Robert P. George
Edited by
John Tasioulas
John Tasioulas
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

Any adequate normative theoretical account, or philosophy, of civil rights and liberties must accommodate, among other norms, those set out in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), the US Bill of Rights (1791), and the first twenty-one Articles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948). Paradigm cases include rights to life, physical integrity, security, privacy, property, and a fair trial; and freedoms of religion, expression, movement, contract, and association or assembly.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law , pp. 291 - 312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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