Liberal rights and responsibilities : essays on citizenship and sovereignty
Christopher Heath Wellman (Author)
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 political states have regarding one another
Specialized.
304 pages
9780199982189, 019998218X
1251410644
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Associative Allegiances and Political Obligations ; Chapter Two: Relational Facts in Liberal Theory: Is There Magic in the Pronoun "My"? ; Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of Political Obligation ; Chapter Four: Political Obligation and the Particularity Requirement ; Chapter Five: A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination ; Chapter Six: The Truth in the Nationalist Principle ; Chapter Seven: Group Autonomy and State Sovereignty ; Chapter Eight: Responsibility: Personal, Corporate, Collective ; Chapter Nine: Immigration and Freedom of Association ; Chapter Ten: The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment ; Chapter Eleven: Rights and State Punishment ; Index