CLAIMS-CONSCIOUSNESS

By SovConn | April 20, 2014

claims-consciousness,n. The quality characterizing a legal culture in which people have firm expectations of justice and are willing to take concrete steps to see that justice is done <claims-consciousness in the United States has resulted from certain social changes, not from any character deficiency>. — Also termed rights-consciousness. — claims-conscious,adj. [Blacks Law 8th]

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