Liberal rights and responsibilities : essays on citizenship and sovereignty / Christopher Heath Wellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellman, Christopher Heath, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Allegiance.

Duty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Essays on citizenship and sovereignty

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Liberal Rights and Responsibilities, 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.

Contents:

Associative allegiances and political obligations

Relational facts in liberal political theory : is there magic in the pronoun 'my'?

Toward a liberal theory of political obligation

Political obligation and the particularity requirement

A defense of secession and political self-determination

The truth in the nationalist principle

Group autonomy and state sovereignty

Responsibility : personal, collective, corporate

Immigration and freedom of association

The rights forfeiture theory of punishment

Rights and state punishment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-998219-8

OCLC:

922972481