Rights and Responsibilities

What are These Rights?

• Fundamentally, a right is an entitlement or a legitimate claim. It represents the rights we have as people, as citizens, and as individuals....

Where do Rights Come From?

Political thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contended that our rights are bestowed upon us by God or nature. This implied that we are born with rights rather than having them bestowed upon us by a government or community. The notion of a natural law, or a system of rules established for us by nature or God, seems out of date now, which is why the word human rights has become more popular than the phrase natural rights in recent years. People now view rights as assurances that they must pursue or achieve to live at least a minimum decent existence. The idea of a free and equal self is being utilised more and more to contest racial, caste, religious, and gender-based injustices that already exist. Oppressed people throughout the world have challenged laws that discriminate against them and deny them equal rights and opportunities by using the idea of universal human rights. The list of human rights that individuals have asserted has grown throughout time as civilizations have encountered more dangers and difficulties. People nowadays, for instance, are very aware of the need to preserve the environment, which has led to demands for rights to sustainable development, clean water, and air, among other things....

Legal Rights and the State

• The Bill of Rights, or Fundamental Rights in India, are the basic important rights listed in a country’s constitution....

Diffrent Kinds of Rights

The following are the different types of rights:...

Rights and Responsibilities

Rights obligate every one of us personally as well as the government to act in a particular manner. Common Good: Defending certain things for everyone, not just our wants. They stand for the “common good,” which is safeguarded for present and future generations. Honouring the Rights of Others: One cannot deny someone else their rights in the process of exerting one’s own. The equal and same rights for everyone premise must restrict each person’s rights. We have to strike a compromise when our rights conflict. Responsibilities: People are ready to have their rights curtailed. Giving governments authority that they may use to restrict people’s rights requires careful consideration....

Legal Rights – FAQs

What is the difference between fundamental rights and legal rights in Class 11?...