Rights & Freedoms Test Review – CLN4C1 Unit 2
Amistad: Based on Movie Questions
1) Which groups claimed to own the slaves? Why?
Rights & Freedoms:
Charter Section 1: Reasonable Limits Clause
What is the difference between a Right and a Freedom?
What is the Oakes Test?
What is a human Right?
Charter Section 2: Fundamental Freedoms
Who was James Keegstra?
2) What legal argument did the abolitionists make to win the first
case?
3) Why did the Amistad case go to the Supreme Court?
What was he accused of?
What is a Civil Right?
4) What was the final outcome?
Why did the Oakes Test apply to him?
Emergence of Human Rights Laws
1) How was slavery abolished in the U.S. in 1865?
What is a Natural Right?
Charter Section 3-5 Democratic Rights
What are your democratic rights?
How long can Parliament sit for?
2) What was the holocaust? How many were civilians were
murdered?
Who wrote and passed the Canadian Bill of Rights 1960?
List three criticisms of the Bill of Rights?
Charter Section 6 Mobility Rights
What are they?
3) Why was the United Nations formed in 1945?
Charter Section 7-14: Legal Rights
4) Describe the UN declaration of human rights? Why is it so
important? Who actually wrote it?
Why did Trudeau believe that it was important to write a Charter of Rights
and entrench it in the Constitution? What does entrench mean?
S.7
S. 8
S. 9
S. 10
(a)
Human Rights Code:
How many forms of discrimination are there?
Euthanasia Case Study : List some of the pros and cons of legally
permitting assisted suicide.
(b)
(c) Explain what it means when it states the validity of the detention is
determined by way of Habeas Corpus.
What happened in the Tawny Meorin case?
What is BFOR?
S. 11 – Include at least 2 main points.
Section 15: Equality Rights
Discrimination is prohibited on what grounds?
1.
Do hospitals already permit passive Euthanasia? Describe.
2.
What is the Euthanasia law in the Netherlands? Should Canada
adopt this approach?
3.
What happened in the case R v. Robert Latimer? Why was he
sentenced to prison?
Marijuana Case Study: List some of the pro’s and cons of fully legalizing
marijuana. Remember some of the issues raised by the documentary the
downside of high?
(2) Allows for what type of programs aimed at getting rid of conditions of
disadvantage ______________________________
Section 24: ________________________________
Section 25: Aboriginal Rights
What treaty does the charter protect?
Same Sex Marriage Debate:
In the debate over same sex marriage, why did the Government of
Canada not put the issue to a national referendum vote?
Section 27: Multicultural Heritage (Describe)
Section 32: Who does the Charter apply to?
Section 33: Notwithstanding Clause?
What is it? Which province has used it and why?
What was the legal argument that won the case allowing the two
Michael’s to get married? Think about Charter Sec 15 and what it says
about discrimination based on sex?