A comparison of US Bill of Rights and The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Date Submitted: 12/20/2004 11:41:56
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 7 pages (1901 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 7 pages (1901 words)
Former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark wrote in the New York Times, "A right is not what someone gives you; but what no one can take away." It is in this vein that a country drafts legislation to protect the rights of their inhabitants. In the United States there is the Bill of Rights, which consists of a preamble and the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, 1787 . The Charter of Rights and …
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…Russel. The U.S. Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Toronto: Ontario Economic Council, 1983.
*Supreme Court of Canada, http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/index.html University of Montreal.
*The Bill of Rights, http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/billmain.html National Archives and Record Administration.
*U.S. Supreme Court, Arizona v Miranda, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=384&invol=436 Findlaw.
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