on govermentinterference. Individual rights are negative rights that guarantee
a domain of freedom of choice within which legal persons are
freed from external compulsion. Political rights have the same structure:
they afford citizens the opportunity to assert their private interests
in such a way that, by means of elections, the composition of
parliamentary bodies, and the formation of a government, these
interests are finally aggregated into a political will that can affect the
administration. In this way the citizens in their political role can
determine whether governmental authority is exercised in the interest
of the citizens as members of society