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  2. Right to public participation - Wikipedia

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    Hence laws regarding public participation often deal with the issue of the right to know, access of information and freedom of information. [5] The right to participation may also be advanced in the context of equality and group rights, meant to ensure equal and full participation of a designated group in society. For example, in the context of ...

  3. Public law - Wikipedia

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    Laws concerning relationships between individuals belong to private law. The relationships public law governs are asymmetric and unequalized. Government bodies (central or local) can make decisions about the rights of persons. However, as a consequence of the rule-of-law doctrine, authorities may only act within the law (secundum et intra legem ...

  4. Civil and political rights - Wikipedia

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    Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right ...

  5. International law - Wikipedia

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    Bound volumes of the American Journal of International Law at the University of Münster in Germany. International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

  6. Self-determination - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The principle does not state how the decision is to be made, nor what the outcome should be (whether independence, federation, protection, some form of autonomy or full assimilation), [6] and the right of self-determination does not necessarily include a right to an independent state for every ethnic group within a former colonial ...

  7. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    The social contract is an agreement between members of a country to live within a shared system of laws. Specific forms of government are the result of the decisions made by these persons acting in their collective capacity. Government is instituted to make laws that protect the three natural rights.

  8. Civil liberties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wade, in part due to the Supreme Court finding that the right to privacy was not mentioned in the constitution, [14] leaving the future validity of these decisions uncertain. [15] Legally, the right of privacy is a basic law [16] which includes: The right of persons to be free from unwarranted publicity; Unwarranted appropriation of one's ...

  9. Authority - Wikipedia

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    The term authority identifies the political legitimacy, which grants and justifies rulers' right to exercise the power of government; and the term power identifies the ability to accomplish an authorized goal, either by compliance or by obedience; hence, authority is the power to make decisions and the legitimacy to make such legal decisions ...