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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"individual rights"”.
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… with utilitarian political philosophy to divest individuals of the natural right to procreation. Involuntary sterilization legislation spread throughout the United States after the 1927 Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision that gave judicial approval to involuntary sterilization, regardless of due …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
This dissertation examines the arguments of rights recently invoked in lawsuits addressing duties to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It asks whether these arguments correspond to how rights are typically understood in terms of philosophical ideas of rights. This question is not examined from a …
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The attitudes of white and black fifth-grade low and middle class children toward selected individual rights in the United States
… of fifth-grade students toward selected rights of individuals in the United States, using socio-economic status, sex, intelligence, and race as the classifying variables. The population included 245 fifth-grade black and white students from lower socio-economic and middle socio-economic …
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A response to the jurisprudence of the High Court in the 'implied rights cases': an autochthonous Australian constitution, popular sovereignty and individual rights?
… constitutional arrangements. In the 'implied rights cases', popular sovereignty was said to replace (or at least heavily qualify) parliamentary supremacy, and was seen as a springboard for the protection of individual rights. This thesis argues that the promulgation and enforcement of …
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Liberty in full : Justice Stephen Field's cooperative constitution of liberty.
… liberty, with certain provisions protecting individual rights through government regulation and others by restraining such regulation. To show Field's perspective, I focus on two sets of Constitutional provisions which Field saw as cooperating toward a full liberty. The first consisted of the …
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Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights
… dissertation argues for a conception of group rights based on Habermasian discourse theory, as an alternative to the dominant multicultural liberal approach to group rights, which treats group rights as instrumental to individual rights.</p>
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The Ethical Balance Between Individual and Population Health Interests To Effectively Manage Pandemics and Epidemics
… providing a basis for attaining balance between individual and population oriented ethical concerns generated in the pandemic and the epidemic interventions. The shortfall leads to competing individual and population interests that hamper the effective management of pandemics and epidemics. The …
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Respecting Citizens, Protecting Capabilities: the Role of the State in a Liberal Society
… in protecting this right the fundamental rights of women are often violated or overlooked. In order to grant religious freedom, liberal states often permit discriminatory and oppressive practices. Martha Nussbaum maintains that a balance must be struck between the protection of individual …
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
… principles entail value laden beliefs (e.g., individual accomplishment is important), support general social policies (e.g., the legal system should protect individual rights to privacy), and advocate specific individual behavior (e.g., an individual should not use other persons' property …
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Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japanese Intellectual Property Regimes
… and the preservation of equilibrium between individual rights and public interests in the establishment of intellectual property.
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Spontaneous and Leaderless: The Anarchist Impulse in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Fiction
… political principles of non-didactic education, individual rights, and grassroots organization. Demonstrating the explicitly anarchist context of debates that took place among Joyce and the authors of The Egoist circle and among Dos Passos and his contemporaries at New Masses, I reconstruct an …
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Creation of a collegiate level drug testing policy
… questions pertaining to a student-athlete’s individual rights have surfaced. The purpose of the research was to create a collegiate level drug testing policy to be utilized during the regular season by NCAA Division I member institutions. A drug testing program, based upon individual …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… original meaning encompass two extremes: an "individual rights" interpretation which argues that it protects each person's right to own and use weapons for any non-criminal purpose; and a "collective rights" interpretation which asserts that it protects only the states' right to maintain a …
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Understanding the livelihoods of small-scale fisheries in Lamberts Bay : implications for the new small-scale fisheries policy
… hurdle of implementation. The adoption of the individual rights approach embodied by the individual quota (IQ) system in the post-apartheid reforms has led to divisions within the community. Fishing rights benefited a small elite and disenfranchised many more fishers for whom fishing was a …
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Private Property in America: Land Use and the Ethics of Owning Land
… arose out of a tradition that emphasized the individual freedom to control holdings without interference from governmental influences. A sharp distinction between society as a whole and individual rights isolated ownership of private property from a notion of the common good. This dualistic …
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Rationale and Structure for Adequate Public Education: A Value Critical Approach
… demands of community responsibility and individual rights housed within the principle of liberty be used creatively in the development of public policy? (b) How do the value clusters inherent in democracy allow for balance and affect the provision of adequate educational opportunity? (c) …
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A hairy predicament: The problem with long hair in the 1960s and 1970s
… challenge to authority and their claim to individual rights. During the era, the meaning of long hair changed dramatically from what it was during the fifties. It began as a symbol of youth culture rebellion linked to music. By the latter part of the sixties, however, it became associated …
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Divorce: A matter of rights and responsibilities
… society, steeped in a culture that emphasizes individual rights, turned away from traditional fault-based divorce laws to embrace the easy, unilateral no-fault divorce laws in place today---divorce laws that have had unexpected and disastrous economic consequences for the children of divorce. …
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