CRI215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Supreme Court Of Canada, Psychopathy, Indian Act
17 Dec 2017
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Barbra young welke: a law professor and historian. Questions of belonging rest at the hear of the modern liberal democratic state. What does belonging mean?does belonging depend on there being others who do not belong. Barbara thinks in order to have a national community, there will always be other that are implicitly lesser than those who are part of the full community. In principle, everyone has the right to use courts, but barbara thinks within liberal democracy always includes the question of belong and exclusion. When thinking of personhood, it is the thought that. Citizenship rights include: voting, running for office, serving on juries, suing and being sued, etc. Superficially neutral, but not really - able white man was the original archetype; change has happened, but its incomplete. Barbara argues that the white man is the ideal type of personhood. Identity categories are created by social context in which we live in. Identities are complicated and weren"t born knowing them.
