Justice is composed of different parts: equal opportunities in education; gender and success; free markets; prevent poverty; and to provide aid to those less fortunate. ... In Robert Nozick's book titled, Anarchy, State and Utopia, he states that, "individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights" (2). ... But it is no less true that these kinds of exclusions were always in tension with the underlying principle of liberalism - namely, that all human beings are by nature free and equal" (4). That because earlier y...

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For Locke and the American founders, providing laws was the best way to protect the civil rights. ... For Locke, everyone's belief was equal. ... The state's job was to ensure peace and secure enjoyment of personal rights safe from injury. ... Because of focusing on individual rights on property, the state made sure the new American state was as the umpire in securing the basic citizen's rights. ... For Locke and his supporters, everyone was equal in their rights and in the protection from the government. ...

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The ideals that inspired the revolution, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, still to this day encourage men to discover the best way to organize a government that will ensure that everyone is free and happy, have equal rights and free from the miseries of hunger and poverty iii. ... Principles such as the abolishment of the feudal system, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, were seen as the most effective means of protecting peoples rights of liberty, property and security. ... All were made equal politically, when all the citizens were given the right to vote. ... The d...

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As soon as the French movement to end political injustices spiraled into a revolution in 1789, a hero of the American Revolution, Marquis de Lafayette, proposed a Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. ... The first point says, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; social distinctions may be based only upon general usefulness" (175). The plain and simple statement that men are born free, and with equal rights foreshadows each of the following points which include a freedom encompassing every citizen. ... After reading The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citiz...

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Thomas Jefferson spoke of Americans' "unalienable rights" and their natural equality (which according to Locke meant that no one had by nature the right to rule another human without that person's consent). America became a forerunner in the world by delcaring that "all men are created equal" which severly contested English rule. ... However, once Britain refused to grant them their rights a rebellion ensued. ... Through the creation of a constitutional government, which treated its citizens as equals and granted freedoms unheard-of in contemporary countries, America formed itsel...

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man This declaration was adopted by the National Assembly and stated that democratic principles would be the basis for French government. ... The aim was to shift the authority of issuing basic human rights from the Church to the state government. The French Revolution eliminated privileges given to aristocracy and replaced them with rights and the principle of equality for all people. ... Freedom of worship and equal treatment of different religions was subsequently adapted in a number of Western democracies. ... Liberty meant the rights to property, securi...

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This is the point in time when the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen was adopted. Along with many rights acquired, men now had the right to take part in the legislative process. ... This marked the end to exemption from taxation, freedom, and equal rights for all men in access to public office based on talent, not status. ... During this time of social and political changes, some social classes acquired new rights, and some social classes had rights taken away. ... The only thing that they really gained form the revolution, were the civil rights stated in the declaration of r...

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Differently in Locke's state of nature humans do have rationality and they are, according to liberal philosophy, equal and free. ... Since among natural rights the right to private property is one of the most important, the state has to guarantee the private property as well as others natural rights (freedom, freedom of speech etc...). ... The only kind of democracy possible is the representative one, since it can at the same time control the power and guarantee human rights. ... In Rousseau's state of nature men are free and equal, the civilization is what made them corrupted. ... I...

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Rather, the government must give everyone a equal chance to live freely. ... Pragmatists realized that there were different contexts associated with rights. They also argued that political rights are founded on history and traditions. ... They conclude that rights are not natural but yet it is very important. ... There were some contradictory involved such as not advocating for minority rights. ...

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The goal of a classical liberal government is to give its people individual freedom, equal opportunity, and individual rights which includes keeping its people safe and preventing them from being harmed. ... When the 09/11 attacks occurred the rights and safety of the people of this country were violated and being that the roles of the government as far as the classical liberal ideology is concerned are: Protection - to protect each individual form being harmed or feeling like they"re being harmed, which would block their pursuit of happiness. ... But yet the "terrorists" who committed the att...

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The goal of a classical liberal government is to give its people individual freedom, equal opportunity, and individual rights which includes keeping its people safe and preventing them from being harmed. ... When the 09/11 attacks occurred the rights and safety of the people of this country were violated and being that the roles of the government as far as the classical liberal ideology is concerned are: Protection - to protect each individual form being harmed or feeling like they"re being harmed, which would block their pursuit of happiness. ... But yet the "terrorists" who committed the att...

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He thought that people had three basic rights which are life,liberty and property. Locke believed that the government is created to protect the rights of the people. If the government ever took away or mistreated the rights of the people they can rise up against their government. ... It says that all men are created equal and they are born with certain rights which include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Also the government soul purpose is to protect these rights. ...

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Fascism rejects the liberal doctrines of individual rights, political equality, and representative government, yet it advocates broad popular participation in politics and may use established representative systems in order to facilitate its ascension to relevance or power. ... Yet Marxism still advocates the inherent humanism of libertarian ideals, championing egalitarianism and individual rights. ... The libertine sees the State as an economic extension of the people, effectively incorporating the nation with each member an equal shareholder. ...

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Henceforth, each step of America's development is based on what rights each man should have and what the notion of freedom means to each individual. ... His reasons for America to do so involved the notion of every man's natural freedom and rights. ... His vague definition of freedom and his general, yet set, rights to which every man is naturally entitled triggers people to have their own interpretation of what freedom means and thus causes them to expand their rights according to it. ... Paine's words causes people to take their thoughts on freedom and have them expand wh...

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The Napoleonic Code guaranteed equality, property rights and the rights of citizens as the previous Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen had sought to do. ... There seemed to be equal treatment under the law as revolutionaries had envisioned, but in reality some of the aspects of the civil code were conservationist and had authoritarian views. Women's rights were curbed and as Napoleon once said "women should stick to knitting ". ...

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That view was spearheaded by Asquith, particularly in the initial years of his mandate, while many members of his cabinet privately supported the women's cause for equal political rights as men. ...

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John Locke presented the reinvented theory that, symbolic of a social contract, there must be a compromise between the sovereign and his subjects whereby respect for the ruler receives an equal respect for the liberties and rights of property of his people, as opposed to a complete surrender of rights for nothing in return, in which case the contract should be dissolved. This was based on Locke's belief that all men come into the world as potential equals, and their mind like a blank page to which every impression is impacted. ... Here the concepts of democracy were aspired to, as each in...

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The people's national identity is said to arise from a sense of political community, within an area with defined geographical borders, which houses a culturally homogenous group, with equal rights under a legal system which is respected by the government - so indicating that civil nationalism and liberal democracy are complementary. Through education, the mass of people are more inclined to be incorporated into what Gellner labels a high culture, affording them equal rights to political decision alongside the elite, whose role it is to manage, rather than dictate to and manipulate them. ...

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Combined with the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, many American thought that Johnson was giving too much importance to African Americans and other minorities; this caused antagonism toward Johnson and liberal government... The first was affirmative action sought not only to provide blacks equal opportunity, but also to teach and train them to get involved in "mainstream American business, education, and politics"(Schulman 115). ...

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On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... Certainly the Church was responsible for some abuses, but to seek to build a free society by undermining property rights is like cutting down trees to grow a forest. Such confiscation only sets a precedent for further violation of property rights, which in turn violates individual rights, the very rights of man and the citizen the new government was so loudly proclaiming. ... Francois Babeuf, the first modern communist, created a Society of Equal...

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It was this more exalted, more inclusive vision of Liberty which would be invoked so many centuries later by a bold group of men willing to justify revolution by an appeal to the self-evident truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable right to Liberty. ... The medieval conception of rights bears no resemblance to modern beliefs and the claims derived from them. When these claimed rights conflict, force is the only resolution. ... He notes that the oft-stated idea that Americans' attitudes relied mainly on certain "Whiggish- notions of the...

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