Another deleterious consequence of rights talk that Glendon picks out is its tendency to move the moral focus toward persons as rightholders, instead of toward persons as bearers of responsibilities.
In his more circumscribed capacities as bishop of Rome, metropolitan of the Roman province, primate of Italy, and patriarch of the West, the pope is the bearer of responsibilities and the wielder of powers that have counterparts in the other episcopal, metropolitan, primatial, and patriarchal jurisdictions of the Roman Catholic Church.
In other words, one can't expect diplomacy to be the bearer of the responsibility for struggle, resistance, domestic innovations, and the realisation of internal potentials, or god forbid, to approach the enemy from a demoted stance".
But by the late 1990s it was the Republicans who were flirting again with deficits by proposing giant tax cuts, and Mr Clinton who was standing firm.This extraordinary turnaround, by which the Democrats became the flag-bearers of fiscal responsibility, was the culmination of Mr Clinton's recasting of his party.
"Nothing else," Narveson writes, "can literally be the bearer of full responsibility" (Narveson 2002, p. 179).
Also, we did not attempt to identify the ultimate bearer of financial responsibility for these charges.
The previous handbook provided the distinction between rights holders, duty bearers and holders of responsibilities with regard to the right to food, as well as the functions and tasks that each one carries out.
In this model potential research participants are produced as bearers of both rights and responsibilities.
Dr. Steckel, an economist and anthropologist at Ohio State University, and Dr. Rose, an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, stressed in interviews that their findings in no way mitigated the responsibility of Europeans as bearers of disease devastating to native societies.
