Relationship between rights and duties
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- Relationship between rights and duties
- Rights
- Legal system can enforce those rights
- Must be a legal system in place that recognises those rights
- No one can stop a person from exercising their rights.
- Legal system
- punish people who commit criminal offences
- Evolve to reflect changing moral values
- Ensure contracts between people/companies are honoured
- Reflect the moral attitudes of society
- binding on the whole of society
- Examples of rights
- To buy alcohol (licensing act 2003)
- if arrested (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005)
- Free education (Education act 1944)
- Vote in an election for men and women over eighteen (Representation of the people Act 1969)
- Rights and duties
- Rights
- Claim
- A right that infers a corresponding duty to the right holder
- The right to free education infers a duty from others to provide free education
- A right that infers a corresponding duty to the right holder
- Liberty
- A freedom or permission to do something- there are no corresponding duties owed by anyone else to enable a liberty right
- Claim
- Duties
- Absolute
- Duties that do not have a corresponding right
- Duty of a citizen not to break the law
- Duties that do not have a corresponding right
- Relative
- Duties that have a corresponding right
- The duty to pay a debt has a corresponding right for a person to be paid what is owed to them
- Duties that have a corresponding right
- Absolute
- Rights
- Rights
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