PPAS 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Gulag Archipelago, Economy Of The Soviet Union, Jim Crow Laws

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3136
• Professor: James Simeon

Document Summary

Freedom of expression and speech, press, opinion, peaceful assembly (the freedom to peacefully protest) Legal rights- a right to counsel, unreasonable search, innocent before guilty etc. Democratic rights right to election and right to legislative assembly. 33(notwithstanding clause) - a law can be passed that may violate the charter and is. Language rights minority language rights, french, englishk etc. permitted for 5 years. Sec. 1(reasonable limits) that have to follow the rule of law, there are limits to our rights and freedoms. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the gulag, the o(cid:448)iet u(cid:374)io(cid:374)"s for(cid:272)ed labour camp system. Exiled from the soviet union in 1974 after having been awarded the nobel prize. Literature in 1970 for his very famous book, the gulag archipelago; Book argued that the soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labour camps.