Ch. 4 Vocab Flashcards
Abrogate
repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
Ameliorate
To improve/ make better
Capital Offences
Offences punishable by the death penalty
Derogate
Detract/deviate from
Dissemination
To spread information (often false)
Entrench
establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely.
Extradition
To move a criminal from the country where they’re caught to the country where they committed the crime.
Franchise
Suffrage/ the right to vote
Freedom*
A FREEDOM is the right to conduct one’s affairs
without governmental interference. Unlike a right,
no one has a duty to oversee or enforce this
freedom. The government, however, still has an
obligation not to unduly limit individual freedoms.
Inalienable Rights
a right according to natural law, a right that cannot be taken away, denied, or transferred
Interveners
To enter into a lawsuit as a third party to assert a claim against one or both of the existing parties.
Notwithstanding Clause
Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution of Canada. It is commonly known as the notwithstanding clause or as the override power, and it allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain portions of the Charter
Invoke
cite or appeal to (someone or something) as an authority for an action or in support of an argument.
Override
use one’s authority to reject or cancel (a decision, view, etc.).
Right*
A RIGHT is a legal, moral, or social claim that
people are entitled to, primarily from their
government. A legal right is something that
cannot be given to you one time and then denied
another time. If you have a legal right, then some
other person has a legal duty to see that this right
is honoured. If it isn’t, you can rely on the law to
see that something is done about the matter.
