Natural Rights and Individual Sovereignty
16 Pages Posted: 13 May 2008 Last revised: 25 Sep 2008
Abstract
Can we have a moral right to do things that are immoral? Some people have said "Yes", but others have vehemently denied the same. This paper argues how such an idea could have developed out of a completely different one.
Keywords: Human Rights, Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Legislative authority, Bracton, Hierocratic theories, Conciliarism
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Van Duffel, Siegfried, Natural Rights and Individual Sovereignty. Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 147-162, December 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1132262
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