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It requires, for example, that every person be publicly treated as a person, not as
a member of a class, group, or race, that his civil rights be not limited on irrelevant
grounds, that is, on grounds other than his own violation of the civil rights of ...
It requires, for example, that every person be publicly treated as a person, not as
a member of a class, group, or race, that his civil rights be not limited on irrelevant
grounds, that is, on grounds other than his own violation of the civil rights of ...
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Democracy gives a new status to the individual, that is, to every person as a
person. He is invested with active as well as passive rights. He is protected
against power and he is endowed with power, the power to share equally with
every other ...
Democracy gives a new status to the individual, that is, to every person as a
person. He is invested with active as well as passive rights. He is protected
against power and he is endowed with power, the power to share equally with
every other ...
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His rights as a person are incorporated in his citizenship. His citizenship sustains
and affirms his claims as a person, his quality as a human being. Democracy
extends rights also to the resident non-citizen, rights as a human being, so that
he ...
His rights as a person are incorporated in his citizenship. His citizenship sustains
and affirms his claims as a person, his quality as a human being. Democracy
extends rights also to the resident non-citizen, rights as a human being, so that
he ...
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Contents
Our Neglected Heritage | 3 |
Liberty Equality and Fraternity | 12 |
The Rule of the People | 22 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Ramparts We Guard Weil lectures on American citizenship |
| Authors | Robert Morrison MacIver, Robert Morrison Mac Iver |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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