As a citizen of Canada, it is imperative to understand the origins of legislation that binds our nation. Unfortunately the vast majority of people can hardly comprehend both its origins and what is contained within our arrangement. “The British North America Act planted in Canada a living tree capable of growth and expansion within its limits” An analysis of the Constitution requires understanding the principles. “What are those principles? Our Constitution is primarily a written one, the…
Law, for me, is something that fascinates my inquiry mind and curiosity, is absolute and controversial, is precise and abstract, can be cruel or decent and always brings about significant influences on people’s lives as being a system of regulating individuals in a state. My initial interest in law stemmed while I was thinking what liberty and equality are, and how and to what extent we could or should guarantee those conceptual entities for individuals as inalienable rights of all human beings…
1). Jury Nullification . Retrieved from Personal.psu: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jph13/JuryNullification.html 3. West's Encyclopedia of American Law. (2008, January 1). Jury Nullification. Retrieved from The Free Dictionary: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/jury+nullification History I. Pre1700 (English and US): For the English to protect themselves from the “tyranny” government in the Pre1700’s, they came up with a system of juries. With the first “case” being…
customs, laws, both common and natural, and precedents blending ideas from their mother country, classical Republicanism, European Enlightenment, and Protestant…
time. There are multiple documents through out history that have had their ideas of basic human rights and within all of their contexts there are major correlations. Although the examples being used today of the "Magna Carta", the "English Bill of Rights", the "Spirit of Laws", and the "Social Contract Theory" come from Europe, it is seen all over the world. It all started with John Locke's and Rousseau's ideas about the "Social Contract Theory". This theory states that all individuals have…
The doors of the subway closed before our eyes, separating us. It was only my mother and I. My father and my three-year-old sister were now on the train without us. It was our second day in Canada, without a word of English, or even a dollar in her pocket, my mother decided we had no option but to sit and wait where we were, hoping my father would come back for us quickly. I recognize this moment as the epiphany of the struggle of many new immigrants, just the first of many obstacles to be faced…
I was born in Kazakhstan in former the Soviet Union, and moved to Russia at age 9. I’m considered Caucasian. I am fluent in Kazakh, Russian, Uzbek, Turkish and English. The thought about immigrating to the United States was horrifying to me. It was a new big country with new challenges for us, people who spoke different language that we didn’t speak at that time, a new traditions that we had to face, but we were grateful that the United States gave us a chance to live as human beings. Back in…
individuals’ reputation is taken seriously in the English legal system hence the law of defamation was put in place. What needs to be considered is looking at whether the law contradicts Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights Act. This essay would be focusing on how the Human Rights Act 1998 has made an impact on several areas of tort mainly focusing on defamation and trying to see if the Human Rights Act goes in line with the law of defamation or contradicts it. A brief history…
John Locke was an English doctor, politician, and philosopher who is widely considered the father of the enlightenment. His ideas of natural rights and a direct constitutional democracy served as a template for many countries’ governments, including our own. In Locke’s ideal system, the government is put in place by the people. It stresses the importance of limiting the government’s power while also ensuring that the government protects the rights of its citizens. Locke’s system is the most…
states students initially believed that coming to an English-speaking nation would improve their English tongue however, “their access to authentic English had been constrained for reasons relating to discrimination and sanctions experienced in the local context through racial and linguistic stigmatization - e.g. ridicule, laughter, disrespect and misrecognition” (Shin 2015). Her report shows that Korean students were unable to even learn the English language much less the curriculum due to the…