Problems and Possibilities of Ethnic Minority Traditional Rights within Liberal Democracies

ID:	HARP-402
Title:	Problems and Possibilities of Ethnic Minority Traditional Rights within Liberal Democracies
Source:	The Social Science Journal, 2002, 39, 2, Apr, 221-234
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, democracy, human rights, United States, US, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, liberalism, minority rights
Abstract:	Problems & possibilities relating to claims to group rights within a liberal individualist democratic framework is explored here in two liberal democracies, viz, America & Canada. The tension inherent in individual rights & claims of ethnic minorities to traditional group rights are explored in selected Court cases. In our exploration we shall find that while liberal democracies are committed to individual rights & freedom, they had to, in few cases, interpret rights & freedom, so as to accommodate certain group rights.
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