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Bill Of Rights
A bill of rights, or the Bill of Rights, is a declaration of the rights that a citizenry have. It may also refer to: *Declaration of Right, 1689, a document, given as a speech, that declared the rights all citizens of England should have * Bill of Rights 1689, the bill of rights passed by the Parliament of England, as amended several times * United States Bill of Rights, written 1789, ratified 1791 * Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789 French document *Second Bill of Rights, proposals by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 * Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 United Nations document *Canadian Bill of Rights, an Act of the Canadian Parliament in 1960 * International Bill of Human Rights, 1976 United Nations document * Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in the Canadian Constitution of 1982 * New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 * Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, a Hong Kong ordinance enacted in 1991 See also * Bill of Rights Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Of Rights
A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens. Bills of rights may be '' entrenched'' or ''unentrenched''. An entrenched bill of rights cannot be amended or repealed by a country's legislature through regular procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution, and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments. History The history of legal charters asserting certain rights for particular groups goes back to the Middle Ages and earlier. An example is the Magna Carta, an English legal charter agreed between the King and his barons in 1215. In the early modern period, there was renewed interest in the Magna Carta. English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
