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Absolute Rights, 73,160
European Convention on
Human Rights, 73
Absolutism, 4
Bentham, Jeremy, 100, n.15,101,
n.18
Bill of Rights. See Constitution.
Burke, Edmund, 3,191-193
Citizenship,
Adam Smith, 208
education in, 190,193,212
language of, 208-209
media and, 193
rights and duties of, 208,228,
n.23
Civil Liberties. See Human Rights;
Freedom of Speech; Freedom
of the Press; Freedom of
Religion; etc.
Collective Rights, 132
rights of minorities, 133
Constitution, 3,106
Blackstone, Sir William and, 41,
n. 10,127
human legal rights and, 109-110
judicial system,
influences on, 186, n.33
obstacle to Bill of Rights, 154
unaccountability of, 154-155
Judiciary, 121,153-154
neutrality of, 157-158
INDEX
233
Constitution—cont.
lack of written, 108,110-111,112,
126
Locke, John, 6
need for re-examination of, 123,
124
Party politics and, 127-129
residential liberty, 182, n.5
role of Common Law, 112
UK Bill of Rights, 5,39, n.2,74,
106,110,121-123,151-152,
191,222
Declaration of Independence,
1776, 7
Discrimination,
against women, 131
ethnic, 172
HIV positive persons, 177-178
homosexuals, 177,178-179,180
lesbians, 177,178-179,180,188,
n.48
religious, 175,182, n.4
Duties, 37
rights and, 32,217
Economic and Social Rights. See
Social and Economic Rights.
Education, 3
Adam Smith, 104, n.33
cultural relativism and, 206
democratic rights, in, 212
human rights awareness
through, 218,221