PPAS 3136 Lecture Notes - Civil Liberties, Negative And Positive Rights, Equal Protection Clause

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3136
• Professor: Sirvan Karimi

Document Summary

Civil liberties can be classified into 3 categories. 1- political civil liberties: refers to freedom of religion, political freedom (right to vote, right to run for political office) 2- legal civil liberties: refers to those that are entrenched in section 7-14 in charter protects individuals from arrests, detention protects individuals whenever they come in contact with the cjs. 3- egalitarian civil liberties: refers to equality rights to access to employments, accommodations, and to not be subjected to discrimination - equality before, under the law and equal protection and benefit of the law. 4- languages rights (have two languages french and english) 5 - educational rights (right given to have separate schools) Most civil liberties were given in the 18th century related to freedom of religion, speech were the first given to individuals only set the segment of right to vote but no other political civil liberties. Comprehensive in 19th century when more political rights were given.