[SOSC 1350] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

Document Summary

Equality and rights: canadian laws are based on liberalism assumptions. Constitution= contract between state and citizens (and sometimes those. Liberalism is based on the idea of (cid:498)abstract rights(cid:499) Abstract rights doesn"t take into consideration into social context living within the state"s territory(cid:524) Charter guarantee certain rights, not others; e. g. gay sex marriage: idea of equality limited, abstract, no economic rights. Two competing conceptions of equality: formal and substantitive. Formal equality-post-world war 2 context, first achieved 1960, bill of rights, Enacted by primed minister john d. in post-wwii era: people got interested in individual rights (check moodle for bill of. Guarantee of (cid:498)non-interference(cid:499) government will not interfere. Judicial review idea that judges may evaluate statutes according to the standards of a (cid:498)higher law(cid:499): and then refuse to enforce those they find wanting; judges get authority and power that certain rights; Canada we worried about the separation of power.