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L. McNamara: Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form

Routledge-Cavendish, London, 2007, ISBN 9781904385325

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  1. See for example: Alston [2], Allan [1], Arthurs and Arnold [3], Banakar [4], Butler [7], Epp [10], Keith [18].

  2. After Claude Arien Helvetius. Frequently attributed to Voltaire.

  3. In the UK for example, we assume that children are not in possession of all the predicates for being fully human and thus we deny them certain rights claimed universal for humans, such as the right to vote. In the United States convicted felons are excluded from the right to universal suffrage. In many jurisdictions throughout the world women are not accorded the status of being fully human, and are thus denied rights afforded to men in those jurisdictions.

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Crewe, D. L. McNamara: Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form. Int J Semiot Law 21, 303–310 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-008-9078-0

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