Human Rights Under Democracy

Government is an essential part of civilization in modern and historic times. This crucial element of society has been observed in different forms. There are three main systems of governments: autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. Which system a government belongs to is determined by who hold the sovereignty, meaning who has the supreme power and authority (“Sovereignty”). This leads to there being major differences between autocracies, oligarchies, and democracies.

When looking into the ideas of political theorists it is important to the use of political concepts that may play an important role in what the theorists are suggesting and also how they may affect the relationship between to state and the individuals living within a state. The concepts that will be looked at within this essay are: power, authority and also accountability.

Over the length of this course, we have discussed several aspects of politics. We have studied citizenship and obligations to society as a citizen, justice and what it means to us as individuals, and how to go about enacting change within a community and around the world. Some of the most important topics from this class included the characteristics, duties, and obligations of rulers of government. In addition to the concept of rulers, we also studied the notion of authority and the moral and metaphysical implications of authority to individuals ' autonomy. Within each concept of study, we read works from many authors with conflicting ontologies, constructed from their differing views on human nature.

The dispute about compulsory voting, having decisions that effect our lives the most, be made others that have no distress over it has encountered disapproval. But the concerns about the best form of governance isn’t anything new. Ideal states has been an issue raised in political philosophy and debated about since the Ancient Greeks.

Politics will try and dominate some places where there is a vast majority of supporters both to the government and to the opposition. Spade has highlighted the need to avoid these resistances that is likely to create hatred among different communities thereby resulting into exploitations of different communities. It is, therefore, important to analyze the norms so as to help eliminate the resist against some individual who may be proposing or opposing the developments. The book has generated individualistic rights that can be achieved as a result of the norms. “dispersion of power among people will help realize the generation of a mutual relationship between different people from different communities.” Spade has used the description given by Mitchell Dean to show different kinds of analysis that are experienced through the use of bureaucracy. The identification of different regimes within the government set up will, therefore, create a platform for generating multiplicity through heterogeneous and unlimited

In a growing westernized society built on the principles of freedom, it important to note that the rest of the world is not as privileged as civilization has not always been this way. The idea of state sovereignty, the legal authority of a government over its population, has evolved and adapted throughout history. Post World War II, the world was is an utter shock of what humanity was capable of. Moving forward, a variety of political institutions and documents were created in order to protect global human rights. However many of these institutions were mostly composed of western ideologies and European norms, that by imposing them on the rest of the world can be seen as cultural imperialism (Calhoun, p.15-17). Due to different social, political,

The Prince, although intended to guide governing a monarchy, holds relevance in contemporary society. The Novel begins explaining the difference between principalities and republics. It also states that all nations are one of the two. Principalities put governmental power into few individuals, generally from the same family. They also put the welfare of the state ahead of the freedoms of the individuals. Republics, on the other hand, let the people pick the rulers and thus govern themselves. This sentiment still holds truth as all modern nations can be divided into one of these two types of states. Although the author claims that this book is intended to discuss solely principalities, strong links remain to current events pertaining to democratic

The general understanding of democracy is that it is a state of leadership where citizens of a country participate equally either directly or by representative individuals in the establishment of laws, which run the society. However, like many other forms of leadership, democracy has its cons and may not give the citizens the necessary freedoms that they think they have. Different philosophers have different insights on democracy in terms of concepts such as liberty, which they embraced. This paper will look at Benjamin Barber and Joseph Schumpeter’s idea of democracy contrasting their definition in terms of citizenship, obligation, rights and duties of each individual in the society declaring whose idea of democracy creates a compelling vision (Terchek & Conte, 2001).

The requirement of freedom by man is evident. This freedom is accompanied by sociality required with the community in order to fulfill the natural necessity of social interaction which accompanies human beings. Individuals lack the ability to prosper in isolation while remaining true to themselves. They are also unable to live within communities where unions are established in accordance with natural law, as freedom surpasses the limits of nature, making larger communities a possibility and necessary at the same time. Thus leaving the “democratic ideal…more valid…version of…bourgeois civilization…Bourgeois civilization is in the process of disintegration, it is important to…save what is permanently valid…If democracy is to survive it must find a more adequate cultural basis than philosophy which has informed the building of the bourgeois world” (pg. 6). Unfortunately like similar social classes, they hold biased thoughts and beliefs despite their intentions to the contrary.

In this TMA I will examine and assess how political order is made mainly through the state. In order to create, maintain and repair political order, the state needs authority from its citizens to do so and this authority needs to be legitimate. ‘Legitimacy refers to a belief in the states rightness, its right to rule or the idea that its authority is proper.’ I will then explain how today, legitimacy is closely linked to democracy and it is through free and fair elections that the state receives legitimacy. The degree to which individuals legitimise the state is varied and individuals or groups of people can also engage critically with the state.

A human right is defined as, a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person. They are often held to include the right to life, liberty, equality, and a fair trial, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom of thought and expression. The Chinese government often denies any abuses of human rights, but many countries and international organizations argue otherwise. Many point out repeated abuses in areas such as…..

Whose rights are more important? Humans rights or animal’s rights? The right to bear arms or the should that right be amended. Should a terrorist of the right for due process or should their right be taken from them the minute they decided to commit a terrorist act? These are some of the issues that were discussed in Articles written by Michael Pollen in an “Animal’s Place”. An article on, rather animals, should have constitutional rights. Molly Ivins article “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns”. Is an Article on rather or not our right to bear arms should still be relevant? The third article “The Case of Torture”. Is an article on rather or not Terrorist should the same legal rights as a non-terrorist? Everyone should

The structure of individual estates and how they behave has been influenced by the constitution of the international system. In others words, due to the fact that states behave in an anarchy system, in which is not a high authority that protects them in case that they found themselves into international affairs with others states, it makes that states persuade the seeking of power, trough security competition, to ensure its survival.

Aim of education and value education; Evolution of value oriented education; Concept of Human values; types of values; Components of value education.

The term ‘state’ can be used to refer to a bewildering range of things: a collection of institutions, a territorial unit, a historical entity, a philosophical idea and so on. In everyday language, the State often being used interchangeably in two words is confused with the Government. The registration of our birth, travel, the police, board exams and certificate, voter identity cards and passports- these are a few instances of our routine encounters with state, which point to the pervasiveness of modern state in our daily lives. Perhaps some form of Government existed but, however, at least within its modern form large communities in the fifteenth century did not emerge until about. The exact relationship between the State and the Government is, however, highly complex. Government is part of the State, and in some cases its most important part, but it is a much larger and more powerful entity within an element. So powerful and its nature as a political argument and ideological debate has become the centre of the modern State. It is the nature of State power in the first place, and it represents the interests in the disagreement about principles of State competition, appears. Should be done by the State and private individuals