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Citizenship Paper 1, this whole thing is now pointless, Human Rights,…
Citizenship Paper 1
British Law
Direct Democracy
Definition:
Directly asking the public by a vote on issues
Representative Democracy
Definition:
Electing people who make decisions on behalf of the british publid
Referendums
Examples:
Brexit Referendum
Scottish Independance
Definition:
General vote on a single political question
Pros
Equality
Everyone's voices are heard
Rule of Law
Definiton:
Equality under the law
Sources of Law
Legislation
Definition:
All laws passed by Parliament
Common/Case Law
Definition:
Made by judges and has to be followed by all courts
European Union Law
BAD jokes
no joke needed the british law is the joke
Types of Courts
Magistrate
Definition:
Criminal court
Sentences:
Prison (up to 6 months)
Fines
Community sentences
appeal
Definition:
Criminal court
Prison sentences up to life
crown
Definition:
the one above magistrate and can give out bigger punishments and deals with more serious crimes and aboth this the crown court which does more serious crimes (you do not what to end up there or here )
Eg: murder,rape,arson
Supreme Court
Definition:
the highest court in the UK the biggest cases go here and get decided
Eg: the gay cake
TERRIBLE joke
Tennis, Badminton,basketball
Legislation
Human Rights Act
Definition:
Equality :silhouettes:
definition:
all people of different races and religion being treaty equally
Prejudice
definition
making a opinion with out any real reason about a person based of religion or race ects.
Minority
definitions:
a smaller group off people (less than 50%)living with a bigger group of people
Equality Act
characteristics
definition:
it protects
age
disability.
gender reassignment.
4.marriage or civil partnership (in employment only)
5.pregnancy and maternity
race
7.religion and beliefs
sex
Discrimination
definition:
treating someone different from others because of a stupid reason like race and so on.
Parliament
definition:
a building where PMs meet with the house of lords to decide on new laws and discuss issues.
Bill
Definition:
proposal to the government of the law which gets passed to the house of lords
Parliamentary Ping Pong
definition:
a bill/paper being passed between the house of commons and the house of lords.
called parliamentary ping pong
BAD jokes
going to need to get a bigger racket
green paper
BAD joke:
for when a blue paper just wont do
Definition:
the idea of a law being shown to the house of commons then if its passes there goes back and forth
codified constitution
Definition:
a codified constitution is a set of laws within a country's laws which cannot be changed.it is also easier to read and understand
Eg: america and the rights to bear arms :gun:
the front legs of a bear i reckon would be the arms
uncodified constitution
Definition:
a uncodified constitution is a a country's law which can be changed to fit with new tec and such but is much harder to read and understand
Eg: the UK has this :newspaper:
Living In Britain :house_buildings:
Unfortunately
Population :silhouettes:
Aging Population
Definition:
Average age of a population increases
Solutions (that literally suck for old people)
Raising retirement age
Rise Tax
Reduce Pensions
Encourage Immigration
Immigration
Pros
More workers
Expansion of cultures
Cons
Rising Population costs more
Language barrier
Segregation :yin_yang:
Firstly - there are no pros to segregation i have learned this
Separating a person/people from others
Discrimination
Treating someone differently (badly) because of prejudice
hate speech :red_cross:
definition:
offensive language towards a group of people like a race or ethnicity. with no real reason why.
magna carta
Basically, it means that the king is not above the law
this whole thing is now pointless
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one down like 22 left
ahhhhh
jbvicuxco
hahahaha
Human Rights
Definition:
rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status
some are listed below
the right of life
the right to a fair trial
the right to privacy
freedom of expression/through
freedom of religion
freedom of assembly
freedom from torture
qualified rights
the right to vote
right to protest
and some more
European Court of Human Rights
this is so boring
Council of Europe
47 member states
Aims to develop and spread awareness about human rights
Develop EConventionHR + ECourtHR
religion and that jazz
longish summary:
christianity has bean in britain for hundreds of years.kings and queens of the past have believed in the great chain of being which is god putting everything in his holy order.dirt being at the bottom and the king at the top.
fun fact when the church was in power over britain it was called the dark ages (guess why). religion as a whole is supposed to of set human advancement back by hundred of years.
so many british people that here have bean evebrought up a christian and have don't know any other way of life .or they what something bigger to believe in. or don't like science or the idea of evolution
secular
basically the whole/majority of a country being atheist
reasons why the uk is christian
Fun facts
the royal family and the speaker cannot vote