New Right

Examples of New Right in the following topics:

• The New Right

  • The New Right also differs from the Old Right (1933–1955) on issues concerning foreign policy with the New Right being opposed to the non-interventionism of the Old Right.
  • The second New Right (1964 to the present) was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right.
  • The second New Right tended to focus on social issues and national sovereignty and was often linked with the religious right.
  • The second New Right was mostly ignored by scholars until the late 1980s, but the formation of the New Right is now one of the fastest-growing areas of historical research.
  • Differentiate between the First New Right and the Second New Right

• Purchasing New Shares

  • New shares can be purchased on exchanges and current shareholders will usually have preemptive rights to newly issued shares.
  • Current shareholders may have preemptive rights over new shares offered by the company.
  • In practice, the most common form of preemption right is the right of existing shareholders to acquire new shares issued by a company in a rights issue, a usually but not always public offering.
  • In this context, the pre-emptive right is also called "subscription right" or "subscription privilege. " This is the right, but not the obligation, of existing shareholders to buy the new shares before they are offered to the public.
  • New shares may be purchased over the same exchange mechanisms that previous stock was acquired.

• Control and Preemption

  • Shareholders have the right of preemption, meaning they have the first chance at buying newly issued shares of stock before the general public.
  • These rights may include:
  • The right to nominate directors (although this is very difficult in practice because of minority protections) and propose shareholder resolutions
  • A preemption right, or right of preemption, is a contractual right to acquire certain property coming into existence before it can be offered to any other person or entity.
  • The conditions of preemptive rights will vary from company to company and share type to share type.

• New Social Movements

  • New social movements focus on issues related to human rights, rather than on materialistic concerns, such as economic development.
  • The primary difference is in their goals, as the new movements focus not on issues of materialistic qualities such as economic well-being, but on issues related to human rights (such as gay rights or pacifism).
  • It is clearly elaborated by Habermas that new social movements are the "new politics" which is about quality of life, individual self-realization, and human rights; whereas the "old politics" focused on economic, political, and military security.
  • The concept of new politics can be exemplified in gay liberation, the focus of which transcends the political issue of gay rights to address the need for a social and cultural acceptance of homosexuality.
  • Hence, new social movements are understood as "new," because they are first and foremost social, unlike older movements which mostly have an economic basis.

• The Second Amendment

  • The Second Amendment gives the right to bear arms, and can arguably apply to individuals or state militias depending on interpretation.
  • The Second Amendment to the US constitution was adopted in 1791 as part of the US Bill of Rights .
  • At the time that the amendment was written, there was controversy around the question of state versus federal rights.
  • Anti-federalists were concerned that the new US government would be able to maintain a standing army, which might be temptation to abuse power.
  • The amendment reads "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. " In some interpretations of the bill the right to bear arms is a collective right, exclusively or primarily given to states to arm a militia.

• Women's Rights

  • Women's rights in the nineteenth century focused primarily on women's suffrage, or the right to vote.
  • The first women's-rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848.
  • In New York, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, and Ohio, women's property rights had expanded to allow married women to keep their own wages.
  • In 1860, New York passed a revised Married Women's Property Act, which gave women shared ownership of their children, allowing them to have a say in their children's wills and wages and granting them the right to inherit property.
  • The movement experienced further advances and setbacks in New York and other states, but feminists were able to use each new win as an example to apply more leverage on unyielding legislative bodies.

• The Bill of Rights

  • The English Bill of Rights differed substantially in form and intent from the American Bill of Rights, because it was intended to address the rights of citizens as represented by Parliament against the Crown.
  • Bill of Rights, including the right of petition, an independent judiciary, freedom of speech, freedom from cruel and unusual punishments, and freedom to bear arms.
  • Other Federalists claimed that the new government could not violate the peoples' rights because it only had limited powers.
  • Second Amendment: establishes the right of the state to having militia and the right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
  • Sixth Amendment: guarantees trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel.

• Ratification of the Constitution

  • Pennsylvania followed on December 12 and New Jersey ratified on December 18, also in a unanimous vote.
  • The Constitution went into effect by the summer of 1788 after the following states had ratified the Constitution: Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, and New York.
  • New York and Virginia ratified the Constitution under the condition that a Bill of Rights be added.
  • Ten of the amendments would become the Bill of Rights.
  • The Bill of Rights was enacted on December 15, 1791.

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights are held to be universal and valid in all times and places.
  • Bill of Rights was introduced in New York in June 1789, 11 weeks before the French declaration.
  • Considering the 6 to 8 weeks it took news to cross the Atlantic, it is possible that the French knew of the American text but, in essence, both texts emerged from the same shared intellectual heritage.
  • While the French Revolution provided rights to a larger portion of the population, there remained a distinction between those who obtained the political rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and those who did not.
  • Thousands of slaves in Saint-Domingue, the most profitable slave colony in the world, engaged in uprisings (with critical attempts beginning also in August 1791) that would be known as the first successful slave revolt in the New World.

• Citizenship Rights

  • Citizenship carries both rights and responsibilities, as it describes a person with legal rights within a given political order.
  • Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  • Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  • In this sense, citizenship was described as "a bundle of rights -- primarily, political participation in the life of the community, the right to vote, and the right to receive certain protection from the community, as well as obligations. " Citizenship is a status in society.
  • New citizens are welcomed during a naturalization ceremony in Salem, MA.