Liberal Rights and Responsibilities
Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2013
288 pages
978-0-19-998219-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Liberal Rights and Responsibilities, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Associative Allegiances and Political Obligations
- 2. Relational Facts in Liberal Political Theory: Is There Magic in the Pronoun 'My'?
- 3. Toward a Liberal Theory of Political Obligation
- 4. Political Obligation and the Particularity Requirement
- 5. A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination
- 6. The Truth in the Nationalist Principle
- 7. Group Autonomy and State Sovereignty
- 8. Responsibility: Personal, Collective, Corporate
- 9. Immigration and Freedom of Association
- 10. The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment
- 11. Rights and State Punishment
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
