Individual Rights
Constitutional Law: Individual Rights: Main Elements
The coverage of Constitutional Law: Individual Rights includes the following main elements:
Due Process and Equal Protection: An Overview
For detailed information on this issue, please read the corresponding entry.
Statutory Protection of Individual Rights
Please, refer to the appropiate entry related to the issue.
Freedom of Speech and of the Press
Find out an overview of this issue following this link (topic).
Other Individual Rights
There is information on this basic subject matter in this legal reference.
References
See Also
- Constitutional Law (in international or comparative law)
- Individual Rights (in international or comparative law)
Concept of Individual Rights
Note: explore also the meaning of this legal term in the American Ecyclopedia of Law.
Individual Rights
In relation to the individual rights and constitutional law, Fernando Simón Yarza[1] made the following observation: The concept of 'individual right' is one of the most important categories of modern law. The term 'right' is a translation from the Latin ius, although both in Roman law and in the Middle Ages the term ius was identified with the res iusta, the 'just' or the 'right thing' (see, eg, Gaius, Institutiones, II, 14; and Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 57, ad 1). In its modern sense (see Suarez, De Legibus, I, ii, 5), 'right' means power (potestas) or faculty (facultas), and it constitutes a moral attribute of the person (for a more detailed analysis, see (…)
Resources
See Also
- Constitutional Law
- Individual Rights
Resources
See Also
- Constitution
- Federalism
Resources
Notes and References
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Fernando Simón Yarza, “Individual Rights” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)
See Also
- Bill of rights
- Civil Rights
- Political Rights
- Collective rights
- Social rights
- Individual rights
- Limitations on rights
- Fundamental rights
- Universalism
Leave a Reply