Abstract
The liberal construction of the citizen is a man (sic) empowered with reciprocal rights to the nation state, which will maintain his dignity by providing work and welfare if he can prove need. The challenge for the new century is to find out whether we still can live in a finely balanced world of citizen/civil society state and capital from which these rights will flow. We need to understand why many of the rights died and subsequently to be able to redefine what it means to be a citizen; by taking into account the unequally weighted power relations that favor corporate citizenship. Then human rights, defined as international standards and norms for economic rights (labor rights, housing and food rights), cultural rights and the right to protection from physical harm, can become a meaningful reality.
DOI
101163/187219107X203577
Recommended Citation
Murray.
2007.
"Who Is Afraid of T. H. Marshall? Or, What Are the Limits of the Liberal Vision of Rights?."
Societies Without Borders
2 (2):
222-242.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol2/iss2/4