Daniel J. Hulsebosch

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Daniel J. Hulsebosch | Reviews of Books: Rights, States, and Empires | The William and Mary Quarterly, 65.2 | The History Cooperative

Rights, States, and Empires

DAVID Armitage has demonstrated that the Declaration, typically read as a landmark statement of universal rights, was also a cornerstone in the modern state system. This forum has offered suggestions about how these two interpretations fit together—how modern states and rights have emerged reciprocally. That does not mean that there was a simple causal relationship between them, with states creating rights or rights-seekers choosing the state as the optimal unit for protecting rights. Instead there have been patterns of interactions or at least common languages of rights and forms of the state that have proved useful to a wide variety of historical actors, from revolutionaries and state-building entrepreneurs (called founders when successful) to minority groups and others left out of the original state-making process.

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