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One of the greatest achievements of social culture is the creation of a type of state organization in which an individual does not feel his utter helplessness before an all-powerful state, one in which he realizes that he possesses certain inalienable rights of which no one may deprive him. To be a citizen means to realize that together with one’s duties toward society a man also has rights. That is why the Bill of Rights is justly considered one of the basic parts of the constitution of a democracy.
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Guins, G.C. (1954). The Individual and the State. In: Soviet Law and Soviet Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0869-8_19
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