Chapter 4

Question 1

Abrogate

Answer 1

To get rid of a law entirely

Question 2

Ameliorate

Answer 2

To improve

Question 3

Capital offence

Answer 3

A crime punishable by death in some places (ex. first degree murder)

Question 4

Derogate

Answer 4

To take away from a law / to change a law

Question 5

Dissemination

Answer 5

the spreading of ideas

Question 6

Entrench

Answer 6

To protect or guarantee a right so that it can only be changed by amending the constitution

Question 7

Extradition

Answer 7

Sending someone to a different country to stand trial

Question 8

Franchise

Answer 8

The right to vote

Question 9

Freedom

Answer 9

The right to ones lifestyle without interference from the government

Question 10

Inalienable right

Answer 10

A protected right that cannot be changed or transferred from person to person

Question 11

Interveners

Answer 11

Third party members in proceedings of court AKA. “Friends of the court”

Question 12

Invoke

Answer 12

To put into effect

Question 13

Notwithstanding clause

Answer 13

ss.33 of the charter, allows the government some power to breech sections 2 and 7 through 15 of the charter

Question 14

Override

Answer 14

To be more important than

Question 15

Right

Answer 15

An entitlement that one can expect and the government must protect these. This is different from a freedom since the government does not need to oversee these.