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Keywords: Human Dignity

  • AUSTRALIA

    David Hicks' rights under natural law

    • Daniel Baldino
    • 10 July 2006
    9 Comments

    Howard’s legal positivist stance limits individual rights to the confines of a particular legal system. In the ‘war against terrorism’, there is no safeguard against executive excesses or the seizure by the state of absolute power, no basis to defend the dignity of human persons.

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  • RELIGION

    Human dignity and democracy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 30 April 2006

    Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.

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