caa a22 4500 467928320 CHVBK 20180406152936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11158-006-9009-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11158-006-9009-4 Edwards John Department of Politics and International Relations Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, Surrey, UK aut Rights: Foundations, Contents, Hierarchy [Elektronische Daten] [John Edwards] It would seem that we in the West are suffering from an increasing glut of rights. To the sixty-odd human rights that the Universal Declaration and its Covenants have long given us, must now be added the particular rights claims of an increasing number of ‘oppressed' minorities, claims to compensation rights for just about every conceivable harm done and claims to ever more trivial things. This tendency is harmful insofar as it trivialises rights and devalues the coverage of rights. Human rights are fundamental and ought to be protected from these tendencies. Using an analysis of the foundations of human rights, and their function in maintaining autonomy in particular, this article analyses the content of rights - what must be fulfilled in order for a right to be protected - as a means of demonstrating the possibility of reducing the volume of rights without reducing rights coverage and of creating a defensible hierarchy. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 autonomy nationallicence contents nationallicence foundation nationallicence hierarchy nationallicence rights nationallicence Res Publica Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/3(2006-09-01), 277-293 1356-4765 12:3<277 2006 12 11158 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9009-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9009-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Edwards John Department of Politics and International Relations Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, Surrey, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Res Publica Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/3(2006-09-01), 277-293 1356-4765 12:3<277 2006 12 11158 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer