Related Issue 4: Chapter 14

Question 1

What are civil rights?

Answer 1

The basic legal rights a person must possess in order to have such status of free and equal citizenship

Question 2

What was the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms from?

Answer 2

The repatriation of our constitution from Great Britain

Question 3

What came with the signing of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Answer 3

Human rights becoming an intrinsic and irrevocable part of Canadian identity

Question 4

How did the Canadian Charter look to prevent individual rights?

Answer 4

By preventing laws that unfairly discriminate or take away human rights

Question 5

What does the Bill of Rights of USA comprise of?

Answer 5

The first 10 amendments to the US constitution

Question 6

What was the Bill of Rights influenced by?

Answer 6

George Mason’s Virginia declaration of rights

Question 7

Why was the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN?

Answer 7

Because of the Second World War

Question 8

What Principals was the establishment of the United States based on?

Answer 8

Freedom and Liberty

Question 9

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 9

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude