Rights - PSIR PYQs
2. Assess the significance of right to property in political theory. [200words, 15marks] [2020]
3. Discuss the doctrine of 'rights as trumps'. [200words, 15marks] [2019]
4. What do you understand by three generations of Human Rights ? [250words, 20marks] [2018]
5. Differentiate between Freedom and Liberty. Discus's Marx's notion of freedom. [200words, 15marks] [2017]
6. Comment on: "How would I and my fellow human beings behave if we were to find ourselves in a state of nature. and what does this behaviour tell us about our innate predispositions ?" (Thomas Hobbes). [150words, 10marks] [2016]
7. Critically examine John Rawl's argument for democratic equality. [200words, 15marks] [2016]
8. "The implementation of human rights is regarded as a matter of changing the conduct of States ." Comment. [200words, 15marks] [2016]
9. Comment on: Idea of Natural Rights. [150words, 10marks] [2015]
10. Comment on: "All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility." ( J. S. MilI).[150words, 10marks] [2014]
11. Analyse the relationship between natural rights and human rights. [150words, 20marks] [2013]
12. Comment on the assertion of Laslett that Filmer and not Hobbes was the main antagonist of Locke. [150words, 15marks] [2013]
13. Examine the multi-cultural perspectives on rights. [200words, 15marks] [2012]
14. 'Locke is an individualist out and out Substantiate this statement. [150words, 20marks] [2012]
15. Critically examine the cultural relativist approach to human rights. [200words, 30marks] [2010]
16. Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural right as nonsense upon stilts. [200words, 20marks] [2009]
17. Comment on: "The great and chief aim of men's uniting into a Commonwealth and putting themselves under Government is the preservation of property." (Locke) [200words, 20marks] [2008]
18. Comment on: "Real rights are a result of pedomtance of duty." (Mahatma Gandhi). [200words, 20marks] [2008]
19. "Human rights are basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures possess, simply because they are people." Explain the statement. [200words, 20marks] [2008]
20. Comment on: The end of law is not a abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom (Locke). [200words, 20marks] [2004]
21. Comment on: The reason why men enter into civil society is the preservation of their property (Locke). [200words, 20marks] [2003]
22. Discuss the evaluation of the theories of human rights from natural rights to collective and environmental rights. [200words, 60marks] [2002]
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