Liberal rights and responsibilities : essays on citizenship and sovereignty /

In this work, 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 politi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wellman, Christopher Heath
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Citizenship. Allegiance. Duty. Allégeance. Devoir. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights. Allegiance Citizenship Duty Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Associative Allegiances and Political Obligations""; ""2. Relational Facts in Liberal Political Theory: Is There Magic in the Pronoun â€?Myâ€??""; ""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 Punishment11. Rights and State Punishment
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