Individual Duty within a Human Rights Discourse

The main purpose of this book is to examine the principle of individual duty from a number of different perspectives. National legal systems have recognised and enforced for a long time in their constitutions and ordinary legislation various duties which citizens owe to their own families, the communities in which they reside and their country. Such duties include the duty to pay taxes, the duty to provide maintenance and a basic education for one's children, the duty to undertake military service for a specified period and the duty to obey the constitution and other laws.