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A System of Rights
Rex Martin
Abstract
The justification of political authority (the authority of the state) is one of the long‐standing issues of political philosophy, and one that persistently defies satisfactory solution. This book sets out to provide an original justification by establishing a background framework for dealing with the problem.
Keywords: democratic institutions, internal coherence, justification, majority rule, political authority, political obligation, punishment, rights, state, system of rights
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198292937 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198292937.001.0001 |
