How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Dworkin’s trumps image → rights shield the individual against majority calculation
Route 2 Taking Rights Seriously → “rights as political trumps” → fundamental rights override collective interest
meaning of a trump → priority of the right over the good → rejection of greatest-happiness utilitarianism → rights protect dignity / autonomy → moral (not merely constitutional) rights against government → Rawls parallel → society must not always balance in its own favour → Dworkin’s narrow exceptions
Greene: the frame cannot handle conflicts between genuine rights → Costa Neto: trumping and balancing are complementary → no right is absolute
Route 1 rights as trumps secure the individual, but the metaphor strains when rights collide
Route 2 strong rights, yet not absolute → trumping tempered by balancing
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Rights — 8 questions in the Vault.
- The debate on human rights is caught between the
- Comment on the multicultural perspective on Rights
- Human Rights are complex and contested social practice that organises relations between individuals, society and the State. Comment.
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
The first session of Foundation 2027 is published in full.
Six programmes across three levels.