Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Fetus, Vagueness
25 Nov 2017
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A primer on rights: protection of individual rights and freedoms, one can make a decision on how they act, compromise between allowing individuals to do as they wish, with what the state wants, civil rights, human rights as: Inherent: by being born a human, you have rights, complicated: fetus, vegetative states, etc, universal, not always so apparent. A history of human rights: 1867: bna act, similar in principle to uk constitution. Long tradition of recognizing civil rights: british bill of rights, magna carta. Included the charter as an entrenched part of our constitution: 1914: wwi, 1930s: nazi germany and wwii, nazi germany doing horrific things to human beings, 1948: un declaration of human rights, 1960: canadian bill of rights, federal legislation. It applies to federal jurisdictions only: while there is this important bill of rights, it has limited application, doesn"t necessarily have application in the provinces in the same way.
