POLS 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Ion, Padlock Law, Fundamental Justice

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Chapter 19: the charter of rights and freedoms. Civil liberties: consist of rights and freedoms that individuals enjoy beyond the reach of the government or the state. Rights and freedoms are commonly classified into four categories; First: relates to political liberties, including fundamental freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and religion. Second: legal rights, includes the procedural rights of a person suspected or accused of committing a (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e, a li(cid:271)erty e(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)passi(cid:374)g that perso(cid:374)"s right to legal council, a presumption of innocence, bail, and fair trial. Third: involves equality rights - that is, freedom from discrimination on such bases as gender, race, religion, or age. Fourth: economic rights, this is more controversial. Although the right to own property, for example, is recognized in law as well as in the canadian bill of. Rights, it was not enshrined in the charter. Political systems that value such rights and freedoms have adopted two principal methods to protect them;