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Vyara Ndejuru • 1 card
Chacun est aussi complètement libre dans sa foi ou dans son incrédulité que dans sa nationalité. Et s’il arrive que des fidèles d’une autre confession, des membres d’une autre nationalité habitent aussi chez nous, nous leur accorderons une protection honorable et l’égalité des droits.
Théodore Herzl • L'État juif (French Edition)
This sense of divine entitlement, of European Christian chosenness, has shaped the worldview of most white Americans and thereby influenced key events, policies, and laws throughout American history.
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
"Rights and liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth."
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Justice means_______________.
A properly liberal state is one in which individual rights are paramount; it protects the individual not only against the abuses of a tyrant but also against the abuses of democratic majorities. Think of liberal democracy as democracy with moral and legal buffers.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Mill’s writings can be read as a strenuous attempt to reconcile individual rights with the utilitarian philosophy he inherited from his father and adopted from Bentham. His book On Liberty (1859) is the classic defense of individual freedom in the English-speaking world. Its central principle is that people should be free to do whatever they want,
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