Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction -- Historical overview -- Liberty and equality -- The rule of law -- Access to justice -- Right of resistance -- Life, security, detention, torture, liberty, and Villeinage -- Property, taxation, elections, work, and slavery -- Freedom of expression -- Private and family life, home and correspondence -- Conscience, religion, association, assembly, petition, and duties -- Sovereignty and revolution -- Functions of rights -- Limits to legislation -- The future of British rights |
Summary |
Providing a short history of human rights from the eighteenth century to present day, this book traces English Common Law through the French and American declarations of rights, identifying rights which evolved from the English law and politics of the fifteenth century, and which are recognised in the human rights law we see today |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Human rights -- England
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Human rights -- Wales
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Human rights
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Great Britain.
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European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Rome, 4 November 1950).
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Human rights.
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Development of law.
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Law.
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England
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Wales
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780192508478 |
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0192508474 |
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9780191833403 |
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0191833401 |
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