Paul Sieghart

Paul Sieghart author of Privacy and Computers, is currently writing a textbook of international human rights law. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of Justice, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists.

Letter

More democracy?

17 June 1982

SIR: James Fishkin’s 2000-word survey of the current state of ‘democratic theory’ (LRB, 17 June) is a tour de force, but in at least one important respect it is seriously flawed by some national insularity. It is certainly the case that ‘in the 20th century… consensus on God-given rights has evaporated in a climate of secular scepticism and religious pluralism,’ and this proposition holds...
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