Collective Agents and Group Moral Rights¹

Abstract

As I discussed in the introduction, the challenges posed by citizenship in pluralist societies and by claims to self-determination advanced in many parts of the world require a principled basis for determining the character and the entitlements of minority groups. While this book focuses on the entitlements of different national groups and what constitutes their just treatment, consideration of these issues requires that I go beyond the subject of my study to consider the constitution and entitlements not only of national groups but also of groups of other types. In this chapter, I distinguish between different types of group rights.