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Liberal Rights and Responsibilities - Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty (Hardcover, New)
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Liberal Rights and Responsibilities - Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty (Hardcover, New)
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The twin questions at the heart of political philosophy are "Why
may the state forcibly impose itself on its constituents? " and
"Why must citizens obey the state's commands? " In Liberal Rights
and Responsibilities, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original
responses to these fundamental questions and then, building upon
these answers, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning
the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist
groups, and political states have regarding one another. The first
four chapters combine to critically discuss standard theories of
political obligation and then to introduce Wellman's samaritan
explanation of our duty to obey the law. The next three papers
challenge the traditional approaches to group autonomy en route to
advancing Wellman's functional account of political
self-determination. Next Wellman reviews group responsibility and
argues that, in addition to discharging our individual moral
duties, each of us must do our share to ensure that the groups to
which we belong do not perpetrate injustice. In the ninth chapter,
Wellman invokes freedom of association to provide a defense of a
legitimate state's right to unilaterally design and enforce an
exclusionary immigration policy. The last two essays are on
punishment; the first defends the rights forfeiture justification
of punishment, and the second combines this rights forfeiture
theory with the samaritan account of political legitimacy to
explain why legitimate states may permissibly assume exclusive
control over the enforcement of criminal law. Taken as a group,
these eleven essays - one new and ten previously published - aim to
vindicate a liberal political philosopher's capacity to begin with
relatively modest moral principles and still arrive at robust
conclusions in favor of the moral standing of legitimate states.
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