WEEK 5 - Citizens + Rights

Question 1

root of citizen

Answer 1

city dweller
roman civitas=city
old French citiean

Question 2

citizen definition

Answer 2

• inhabitant of city, member of state

- “right to full partnership in fortunes and future of nation” Canadian Citizenship Bill 1946

Question 3

pre modern citizen ship means..

Answer 3

• belonging to community/city
• equality between citizens
• duties
• pre modern citizenship exclusion, majority of pop. excluded

Question 4

modern citizens and modern states shift

Answer 4

• monarchs to states

- subjects to citizens

Question 5

modern citizenship qualities

Answer 5

• political authority rooted in individual
• rights rather than duties
• early modern also exclusive

Question 6

definition of rights

Answer 6

individual claims to freedoms which involve obligations of other indiv., society and government

Question 7

evolution of rights (3 centuries)

Answer 7

17th C - natural rights
18th C - citizens rights
20th C - international human rights

Question 8

natural rights definition

Answer 8

everybody born with rights by nature

Question 9

John Locke 4 basic rights

Answer 9

• life
• liberty
• property
• execute law of nature (protect first 3)

Question 10

Jeremy Bentham natural rights

Answer 10

critique of natural rights “Nonsense Upon Stilts”

• natural rights have no basis
• only rights which count are positive rights in law
• elevated by rhetoric

Question 11

Karl Marx natural rights

Answer 11

critique of natural rights

• rights assume egoistic man
• private property product of capitalism
• “ideology of capitalists”

Question 12

evolution of rights (3 expansion ways)

Answer 12

• origin/source of authority for right (changes)
• content of rights (broadens)
• scope of rights (expands)