Honoured in the Breach: Human Rights as Principles of a Past Age
Rights define the prevailing relations that constitute a community. They are in turn defined by the character of a given mode of production, and as that changes so too the system of rights. The rights that comprise ‘human rights’ evolved in the transition from feudalism to capitalism and represent t...
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| Language: | English |
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Brock University
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Social Justice |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/SSJ/article/view/400 |