Political Science · Political Theory
Match List I (Thinker) with List II (How they defined Rights) and choose the correct option.
List I
- Bentham
- Dworkin
- Rawls
- Laski
List II
- Rights as trumps
- Rights secured through justice are non-negotiable
- The State is known by the Rights it maintains
- Natural rights are nonsense upon stilts
AI-d, II-a, III-c, IV-b
BI-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c
CI-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c ✓ Correct
DI-b, II-d, III-c, IV-a
Correct answer: (C) I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c — The correct pairing is I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c.
Explanation
★The correct pairing is I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c.
★Jeremy Bentham dismissed natural rights as nonsense upon stilts, accepting only legal rights.
★Ronald Dworkin described rights as trumps that override ordinary policy goals and majority preference.
★John Rawls held that rights secured through justice are non negotiable and not subject to bargaining.
★Harold Laski said the state is known and judged by the rights it maintains for its citizens.
★Bentham was a legal positivist who rejected the idea of pre political natural rights.
★These definitions of rights by major thinkers are a standard objective theme.
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