Human rights arise from a single ethical-philosophical idea about the protection of fundamental human goods, which is broken down and complex in rational reflection and has a special role to play in politics and law. Although to some extent human rights are expressed uniformly in the political and legal dimensions, at the same time they have different manifestations and functions as a consequence of the differences in politics and law. Understanding the political- legal dualism of human rights is particularly important for the preservation and development of democracy and the rule of law. Indeed, human rights can only be truly realised in a democratic political system based on the fundamental principles of political liberalism and which respects the principles of the concept of the rule of law. In this context, on one hand there must be an adequate system of checks and balances between democratic politics and the rule of law that effectively guarantees the protection of human rights while, on the other, firm awareness of the need to respect human rights is a precondition for the existence of democracy and the rule of law.
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