In a broad sense, the concept of human rights concerns the relationship between the individual and the state; it involves the status, claims, and duties of the fotmet in the jurisdiction of the latter. As such, it is a subject as old as politics, and every nation has to grapple with it."14 However, not all institutionalized relationships between individuals and the state are governed by, related to, or even consistent with human rights. What the state owes to those it rules is indeed a perennial question of politics. Human rights, however, provide but one answer. Divine right monarchy offers another. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the principle of utility, aristocracy, theocracy, democracy, and plutocracy are still different answers.