☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Dworkin on Rights

Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013) argued that individuals have moral rights against the state — rights are 'trumps' that cannot be overridden by utilitarian calculations of the general welfare.

Category: Jurisprudence · Source: Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977)
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