Human right

Human right represents legally protected entitlements of individuals in society. And many have the impression that certain rights taken for granted are a sacred legacy from the past. 'Historically, the dialectic was between the rights of the rulers and the duties of the subjects. Beginning with the seventeenth century, the subjects or former subjects of the lords, kings, Church and God began to assert their own rights, those claims that they demand the law to …

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