AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Responsible Government, Constitution Of Australia, David Lange

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: shirk

Document Summary

Canada and us have constitutional bills of rights. Some of canada"s rights/ freedoms only apply to citizens. Some other countries have statutory bills/ charters of rights but they could be removed by an act of the legislature because they aren"t enshrined in constitution. Express rights in australian constitution: freedom of religion, acquisition of property on just terms, trial by jury and freedom from discrimination based on state residence. Right to trial by jury (s. 80) is only for indictable offences. But legislatures can just make any offence non- indictable so redundant. Freedom of religion has also been given a narrow scope by hc. Implied rights in the constitution come from ss. 7, 24: parliament must be directly chosen by the people. This has lead to an implied freedom of political communication and an implied right to vote. Implied freedom of political communication may give rise to implied freedom of.