... for positive labor rights, and the push for constitutional rights to environmental protection during the 1960s and 1970s. Together, these cases demonstrate that rights movements in the United States have used state constitutions for reasons that have been largely overlooked by theories of constitutional...

... for the rights movements. Declaration of Independence 1776 Hunt Lynn Lauren Paul Gordon natural law principles Hill Christopher Areopagitica Milton China citizen movements Human Rights Watch Levellers Lilburne John “Freedom John” Milton John Areopagitica “native rights ” “Great Leap Forward...

...This chapter provides a definition of rights and describes the distinction between the categories of positive and negative rights. It first examines the rights movements' campaigns to add education, labor, and environmental rights to state constitutions before discussing the controversy surrounding...