THINKING ABOUT RIGHTS
Write an essay answering the questions below. Your essay should be based on studying the assigned lectures on Blackboard in the “Thinking about Rights” folder and the “American Founding” folder. Do not consult the internet or other sources. Show your mind working – i.e., your understanding based on the assigned lectures. Do not simply copy my entire sentences. 1) What is a right? Explain what the word “right” means, including where a right comes from. Base your discussion on the lectures in the Thinking about Rights folder and the American Founding folder. Show that you have studied these lectures. 2) What are the three most important rights you think you have? Identify the three rights Explain how each right reflects what the word right means from question 1. Don′t discuss three rights which are unrelated to what you say the word ″right″ means in question 1. For each right you identify, explain whether you find support for that right in the documents of the American Founding. [unique_solution]Do you find support for the right in the Declaration of Independence? In State Constitutions? In the U.S. Constitution? In the Bill of Rights? If so, identify which document supports each right and why. Base your discussion on the lectures in the American Founding folder. 3) Explain how the rights you identified affect the relationship between the individual and the majority. Do the rights empower the majority? If so, why? Do the rights limit the majority? If so, why? Base your discussion on the lectures in the Thinking about Rights folder and the American Founding folder.