Rights Flashcards
What do civil rights display?
1) The right to vote.
2) The right to join political parties.
3) To form associations like trade unions or pressure groups.
4) The right to express an opinion.
5) The right to move around freely without restriction.
Other rights are viewed as ‘negative’ as they protect citizens from the state.
What were the 4 major milestones in the development of rights?
Magna Carta 1215
European Convention on Human Rights 1950
The Human Rights Act 1998
The Equality Act 2010
What were the 9 protections of the 2010 Equality Act?
Age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation
What were the origins in the argument for tolerance?
It was originally referred to as religious tolerance. Until the 19th century, only members of the Church of England could vote. John Locke then said that no one religion had a monopoly on the truth. Conservatives then argued that tolerance should be limited in order to preserve unity. Liberals focused on extending tolerance to all.
What do Conservatives argue about Law and Order?
For harsher punishments for criminals, more police and a strong army.
What are the 2 types of equality?
Equal rights
Equality of opportunity
What are equal rights?
Everybody needs to be equally represented and protected. Women, the disabled, gay people and ethnicities. Inequality should be fought off at all costs.
What’s equality of opportunity?
Society should find ways of reducing the advantages and privileges of the few.
What do liberals argue for in law and order?
For tolerance to be extended to everyone.
Name at least 3 rights that have been considered controversial?
Any three from:
The right to form trade unions, The right to strike, women’s rights, right to safe working conditions, freedom from unfair dismissal, right to a decent standard of education, pension rights and the right to purchase property
What were those rights called and when did they become law?
They’re called the Human Rights and were put into law in 2000 under Blair’s government.
How do the left and the right view society?
Left - Looks at society as a whole, believe the government should have an active role and focus on promoting fairness and equality. They’re liberal on social and moral matters.
Right - They focus on the individual and what they can do for them self. Fairness and equality should be developed naturally and not be forced by the government. They’re more conservative and traditional on social and moral matters.
What does justice mean and what are the 3 types of justice?
It means equality before law and the 3 types are national justice, legal justice and social justice.
What is National Justice?
Despite being a rather vague term, it’s summed up to be ‘what people consider to be right or moral or correct’. It can cause problems because what is ‘right’ to one person won’t be considered right to someone else.
Because of this, what happens in court cases where there’s no precedent?
A judge will often have to make a moral judgment in order to administer national justice.
