Rights Rights Animal rights, or animal liberation, is the movement to protect animals from being used or regarded as property by human beings. It is a radical social movement, insofar as it aims not merely to attain more humane treatment for animals, but also to include species other than human beings within the moral community by giving their basic interests — for example, the interest in avoiding suffering — the same consideration as our own. The claim, in other words, is that animals should no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated merely as resources for human purposes, but should instead be regarded as persons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Animal rights"
A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill of rights"
The children's rights movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgement, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children around the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Children's rights movement"
Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from " human rights" or " natural rights"; civil rights are rights that persons do have, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars think that people should have. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty, and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from a god or at a time of nature before governments were formed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Civil rights"
The term collective rights refers to the rights of peoples to be protected from attacks on their group identity and group interests. The most important such collective right is often said to be the right of self-determination. ...more on Wikipedia about "Collective rights"
A constitutional right is a right granted by a government's constitution (on the national or sub-national level), and cannot be legally denied by that government. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constitutional right"
The Divine Right of Kings is a European political and religious doctrine of political absolutism. Such doctrines are largely, though not exclusively, associated with the mediæval and ancien régime eras, based on midevil and a false belief that has poluted contemporary Christianity to this day. Christian It states that a monarch owed his rule to the will of God, not to the will of his subjects, parliament, the aristocracy or any other competing authority. This doctrine continued with the claim that any attempt to depose a monarch or to restrict his powers ran contrary to the will of God. ...more on Wikipedia about "Divine Right of Kings" Evergreen http://www.shortopedia.com!!!
In law, an exclusive right is the power or right to perform an action in relation to an object or other thing which others cannnot perform. The law may require that a person seek such rights through application, or it may automatically grant such rights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Exclusive right"
Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Human rights"
The human rights situation in Europe on the whole is good, although there are several human rights problems ranging from the treatment of asylum seekers and the Roma to reports of police brutality. Most European states are mentioned in the yearly Amnesty International Reports for different human rights violations. ** The most obvious culprits are Belarus, Russia and Turkey, although the latter has undergone major reforms to improve its human rights record in its attempt to gain European Union membership, including abolishing the death penalty and giving increased rights to its large Kurdish minority. ...more on Wikipedia about "Human rights in Europe"
"Individual rights" is a legal term referring to what one is allowed to do and what can be done to an individual. Police states are generally considered to be oppressive because they offer their citizens few individual rights. Individual rights are considered to be central to a " due process model" of criminal justice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Individual rights"
The term minority rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class or religious minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minority rights"
Within the broad spectrum of rights, some philosophers and political scientists see a distinction between negative and positive rights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Negative and positive rights"
Restore Our Associational Rights, Inc. (ROAR) was an organization formed by United States college fraternities to pursue legislation that would protect them from action by college administrations stifling students' right of association. Headed by Delta Kappa Epsilon, ROAR achieved limited success by securing a clause in the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998; the clause allegedly protects students' right to associate with fraternies without fear of retribution from colleges that receive federal funding, but it has yet to be tested in a court of law. ...more on Wikipedia about "Restore Our Associational Rights"
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A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim. Rights serve as rules of interaction between people, and, as such, they place constraints upon the actions of individuals or groups (for example, if one is granted a right to life, this means that others do not have the liberty to murder him). ...more on Wikipedia about "Right"
The right to revolution, in political philosophy, is a right articulated by John Locke in Two Treatises of Government as part of his social contract theory. Locke declared that under natural law, all people have the right to life, liberty, and estate; he wrote that under the social contract, the people could instigate a revolution against the government when it acted against the interests of citizens. The right to revolution formed a philosophical defense of the Glorious Revolution, when Parliament deposed James II of England in 1688 and replaced him with the William III of Orange-Nassau. Later, the right to revolution would be cited in the Declaration of Independence of the United States, which echoed many of the ideas on the right to revolution: ...more on Wikipedia about "Right of revolution"
In 1969, the United States federal courts ruled that, "Students do not shed their constitutional rights... at the schoolhouse gate" in the famous student rights case of Tinker v. Des Moines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Student rights"
The Constitution is not a suicide pact is a political phrase that was coined by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case in the USA. The majority opinion, by Justice William O. Douglas overturned the disorderly conduct conviction of a priest whose anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi rantings at a rally had incited a riot. The court held that Chicago's breach-of-the-peace ordinance violated the First Amendment. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Constitution is not a suicide pact"
The Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government) is a work of political philosophy anonymously published in 1689 by John Locke. The two component treatises are often discussed as separate works, though Locke himself never published them separately. The Second Treatise is often cited as a manifesto for liberal democracy and capitalism, and so has been alternately praised and vilified, depending on one's point of view. Locke claims in the Preface to the work that its purpose is to justify William of Orange's ascension to the throne of England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, though recent scholarship has suggested that the bulk of the writing was completed between 1679-1682. That he would write a defense of revolution during the Exclusion Crisis, i.e., during the reign of Charles II, rather than in anticipation of the imminent ouster of James II, serves to cast the work in a very radical light. Locke further edited the Treatises before publication. ...more on Wikipedia about "Two Treatises of Government"
Youth rights refers to a set of philosophies intended to enhance civil rights for young people. As opposed to children's rights groups, which tend to advocate entitlements for young people and favor paternalistic handling of minors by government, youth rights organizers seek to enhance the role of young people in society through equal rights. They reject what they see as the paternalism of the current regime as a hindrance to young people who seek active participation in society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Youth rights"
The youth rights movement, also described as " youth liberation," is a nascent grass-roots movement whose aim is to fight against ageism (also known as adult chauvinism) and for the self-determination civil rights for persons "under the age of majority"-- 18 in most countries. The youth rights movement can trace its roots to the 1970s and the books " Escape from Childhood" by John Holt and "Birthrights" by Richard Farson. Perhaps the first and best known youth rights group was Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor, which lasted from 1970 to about 1980. ...more on Wikipedia about "Youth rights movement in the United States"
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