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Which of the following is not one of the three categories of citizenship rights identified by T. H.…

In his seminal work 'Citizenship and Social Class' (1950), T. H. Marshall divided citizenship into three distinct categories of rights: civil rights, political rights and…

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Which of the following is not one of the three categories of citizenship rights identified by T. H. Marshall ?

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In his seminal work 'Citizenship and Social Class' (1950), T. H. Marshall divided citizenship into three distinct categories of rights: civil rights, political rights and social rights. He did not classify economic rights as a separate fourth category, instead placing property and contract rights under civil rights and socio-economic welfare entitlements under social rights.

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