Chapter 4 Flashcards
Ameliorate
To improve
Abrogate
To abolish or annul
Capital offences
A crime punishable by death in some jurisdictions
Derogate
To take away
Dissemination
Spreading ideas widely
Entrench
To protect and guarantee a right or freedom by ensuring that it can only be changed by an amendment to the constitution
Extradition
Surrendering an accused person to another jurisdiction to stand trial
Franchise
The right to vote
Freedom
The right to conduct one’s affairs without governmental interference
Inalienable rigts
Guaranteed entitlements that cannot be transferred from one person to another
Interveners (AKA friends of the court)
Third-party participants in a legal proceeding (ex. MADD)
Invoke
To put into effect
Notwithstanding clause
Allows federal and provincial governments to pass legislation that is exempt from section 2 and sections 7-15 of the charter
What section is the notwithstanding clause?
Section 33
Override
To prevail over
Right
A legal, moral, or social entitlement that citizens can expect, mainly from the government
What are the four questions of the Oakes test?
- The reason must be important
- The method must be logical/make sense
- Right must be limited as little as possible
- The more severe the limit, the more important the objective
