POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Individual And Group Rights, Hate Speech, Progressive Tax
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12:03 am: test feedback, many didn"t present complete answers, although they were good, they were not complete. You had to know the details: the winter term, shifting to more of the charter of rights and freedoms, talk about the charter and near the end the legal and social implications. The quality of the research will effect the paper: the concept of rights, what are constitutional rights, the global expansion of rights. Is connected to the demise of absolutism and the rise of secularism. The protestant rev - break from rel. and pol. Rationalism began to challenge and question the legitimacy of theology in political life. Was the first instance that limitations were put on the government and limited the government power change. Became very hard to amend and: the first notable rights, 1689 - british bill of rights. First time in history that resembled a constitutional bill of rights.
