The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and CitizensThe Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership. |
Contents
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Transformations of citizenship the European Union | 129 |
Democratic iterations the local the national and the global | 171 |
cosmopolitan federalism | 213 |
Bibliography | 222 |
Index | 239 |
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Page 105 - Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle, and (b) attached to Offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.
Page 69 - Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Page 136 - The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it.
Page 31 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
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Page 11 - ... Despite the crossborder character of these rights, the Declaration upholds the sovereignty of individual states. Thus a series of internal contradictions between universal human rights and territorial sovereignty are built into the logic of the most comprehensive international law documents in our world. The Geneva Convention of 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol added in 1967 are the second most important international legal documents governing crossborder movements.
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Page 7 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination...
Page 189 - ... manifestation of their religious beliefs; but this liberty does not permit students to exhibit [d'arborer] signs of religious belonging which, by their nature, by the conditions under which they are worn individually or collectively, or by their ostentatious or combative...
Page 26 - Every state, for the sake of its own security, may — and ought to — demand that its...