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In this article I first develop a particular definition of misrecognition understood as a particular kind of political resistance to formally institutionalized rights of persons and peoples. It is exemplified in the refusal to move from moral rights to legal rights. I therefore provide an institutional and not a psychological account of misrecognition. In the second part of the article, I present political liberalism and I show how it is able to accommodate the rights of persons and peoples. In the third and last part of the article, I examine one particular argument that affects ethno-religious groups in particular. With the help of the theoretical resources of political liberalism, I am in a position to achieve a delicate balance between the recognition of the individual rights of persons and the collective rights of peoples.

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diversity group rights liberalism misrecognition multiculturalism religion

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