TOPIC 7: POLITICAL RIGHTS

Question 1

LEGITIMATE EXERCISE OF POWER (4)

Answer 1

1. Common good
2. Within limit
3. Honesty and rationality
4. Respecting the governed

Question 2

Legitimate use of force: 6

Answer 2

1. Defense legitimate
2. Just war cases
3. Safeguard important legal goods
4. Peaceful means exhausted
5. Hope of success
6. Proportional

Question 3

GENERAL RIGHT TO RESIST (3)

Answer 3

• Unjust act
• Illegitimate authority
• Authorities serious and repeatedly violated due justice.

Question 4

Right to passive resistance (3) – reluctance to object

Answer 4

• Unjust war
• No legal remedies to override it or they are tedious
• Disobedience does not cause worse disorder than obedience.

Question 5

Right to active resistance – use of force (5)

Answer 5

• Certain, serious, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights
• Peaceful conflict resolution exhausted
• No insurrection of worse disorders then those intended to be solved
• Proportionate to prevailing evil.
• Hope of success

Question 6

CONFLICT OF ACT CONSCIENTISIOULY (5)

Answer 6

Interest balance:
1. Who commands and how
2. What is required
3. Moral standard of the objector?
4. Objector’s position?
5. Particular circumstances