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Political minorities and the right to tolerance: The development of a right to conscientious objection in constitutional law
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I. INTRODUCTION
As a general rule, political minorities should obey the general will, which is in principle the will of the majority. However, they should not whenever a new law, deemed to be the expression of the general will, is unjust because it offends human rights, which are more "fundamental" than the pretended rights created by such a law. There is then a conflict between the democratic principle and the principle of the rule of law. But as these are both principles of democrac...
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