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	Bill of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have.
		A 'bill of rights' may also be an aspirational statement of the rights that citizens ought to have even though the defining body does not have the ability to enforce the protection of those rights.
		Infringement of rights protected by a bill of rights (such as by repeal of statutory protections or by statutory infringement of constitutionally protected rights) may cause civil unrest, civil disobedience or even revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_of_rights (370 words)

	Bill of Rights 1689 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The flight of James from England in the wake of the Glorious Revolution amounted to (The act of abdicating) abdication of the throne.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 was later supplemented in England by the (Click link for more info and facts about Act of Settlement 1701) Act of Settlement 1701, and in Scotland the Claim of Right was supplemented by the (Click link for more info and facts about Act of Union 1707) Act of Union 1707.
		The Bill of Rights and Claim of Right were a major step in the evolution of the governments in Britain towards (Click link for more info and facts about parliamentary supremacy) parliamentary supremacy, and the curtailment of the rights of the (An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority) monarchy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_of_rights_1689.htm (854 words)

	BILL OF RIGHTS - Online Information article about BILL OF RIGHTS
		December 1689 the rights claimed by the declaration were enacted with some alterations by the Bill of Rights, next to Magna Carta the greatest landmark in the constitutional history of See also:
		England and the nearest approach to the written constitutions of other countries.
		It is to be noticed that the Declaration of Right and the Bill of Rights introduced no new principle into the English constitution; it was merely a declaration of the law as it stood.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BILL_OF_RIGHTS.html (810 words)

	Today in History: December 15
		On December 15, 1791, the new United States of America adopted the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens.
		The Bill of Rights draws influence and inspiration from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), and various later efforts in England and America to expand fundamental rights.
		Bill of Rights, one of The Charters of Freedom in the Exhibit Hall of the National Archives and Records Administration.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec15.html (742 words)

	National Youth Rights Association - View Single Post - Student Bill of Rights - Language Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Student Bill of Rights, of course, is not the place to demand the vote in general elections, but an analogous right should be included.
		The fact that an individual is a student shall not diminish the right of other students to sue him or her or seek his or her criminal prosecution.
		The right of students to be secure in their persons, papers, lockers and effects, against searches and seizures without probable cause, shall not be violated.
	www.youthrights.org /forums/showpost.php?p=23947&postcount=199 (1896 words)

	Constitutional Topic: The Bill of Rights - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The Bill of Rights is the common name for Amendments 1 through 9 (the 10th Amendment is usually included under the heading of "Bill of Rights," since it was ratified with the other nine, but it does not technically recognize any rights).
		The Bill of Rights was understood, at its ratification, to be a bar on the actions of the federal government.
		This process of incorporating parts of the Bill of Rights because of their connection to due process began to run in parallel with the selective incorporation doctrine, where parts of the Bill of Rights were ruled to be enforceable on the states by virtue of the 14th Amendments, whether or not due process applied.
	www.usconstitution.net /consttop_bor.html (1738 words)

	Testimony of Eugene Volokh on the Second Amendment, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Sept. 23, 1998.
		England, of course, didn't have states, so the English right couldn't have been a states' right; Sir William Blackstone, whose 1765 Commentaries were tremendously influential in Revolutionary Era America, described the right as a "right of the subject," an obviously individual rights characterization.
		That the people have the right peaceably to assemble for their common good, and to apply to those vested with the powers of government for redress of grievances by petition or remonstrance; and that their right to bear arms in defence of themselves and of the State cannot be questioned (1820).
		That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination, to, and governed by, the civil power (1776).
	www1.law.ucla.edu /~volokh/beararms/testimon.htm (5253 words)

	Strange Battle for the U.S. Bill of Rights
		The Virginia Bill of Rights, which George Mason had drafted, didn’t protect freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to be represented by a lawyer, separation of church and state or freedom from ex post facto laws.
		The Bill of Rights (1689) was the agreement accepted by William of Orange as the condition for being crowned king of England.
		This Bill of Rights established the supremacy of Parliament, and it said that the government “ought not” to impose excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishments; the English Bill of Rights lacked the clear-cut prohibitions in the American Bill of Rights.
	www.libertystory.net /LSUNFORGETBATTLEFORBILLRIGHTS.htm (3556 words)

	A History of the Bill of Rights
		The Bill of Rights did not end the enslavement of Africans and their descendents, and it slighted or ignored the rights of Native Americans, women, children, gay people, prisoners, the mentally and physically disabled, and others.
		England's Petition of Right, issued in 1628, asserted the right of citizens to be free from unrepresentative taxation and arbitrary imprisonment.
		The Bill of Rights was never intended to apply to Native Americans or to the Africans imported to labor as slaves in the South.
	www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/aclu10.htm (3744 words)

	For a against a Bill of Rights in England? (improved version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		England which invented the idea of freedom and civil liberties, has paradoxically no Bill of Rights nowadays.
		According to the opponents there are two objections to the adoption of a Bill of Rights.
		The second argument in favour of a Bill of Rights is that it would permit to ensure a real protection of civil rights for british people.
	www.ngberger.com /_ngb_kt2/0000000d.htm (477 words)

	Introduction to Human Rights Education
		The mosaic laws commanded respect for life and the property of strangers as well as neighbors by establishing rights in terms of duties (the right to life, for example, was expressed in the commandment not to kill).
		The bill forbade royalty to suspend law without Parliament's consent, specified free elections for members of Parliament, and declared that freedom of speech in Parliament was not to be questioned, in the courts or elsewhere.
		If we arrogate to ourselves the right to pass judgement upon, and seek to interfere with, the internal administration of justice in other countries, we are in effect according the same right of judgement and interference in our own.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/peace/peaceedu/binder2.html (5781 words)

	Hugo Black - The Bill of Rights
		Central all of the Framers of the Bill of Rights was the idea that since government, particularly the national government newly created, is a powerful institution, its officials-all of them-must be compelled to exercise their powers within strictly defined boundaries.
		The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
		The provisions of the Bill of Rights that safeguard fair legal procedures came about largely to protect the weak and the oppressed from punishment by the strong and the powerful who wanted to stifle the voices of discontent raised in protest against oppression and injustice in public affairs.
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /faculty/gertz/hugoblack.htm (6059 words)

	ipedia.com: English Bill of Rights Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bill of Rights, entitled "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown", is one of the basic documents of English constitutional law.
		The Bill of Rights was later supplemented by the Act of Settlement in 1701.
		The Bill of Rights was a major step in the evolution of the British government towards parliamentary supremacy, and the curtailment of the rights of the monarchy.
	www.ipedia.com /english_bill_of_rights.html (396 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bill of Rights, in British history (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
		Bill of Rights, 1689, in British history, one of the fundamental instruments of constitutional law.
		Its principles were accepted by William III and Mary II in the Declaration of Rights as a condition for ascending the throne after the revolution in which James II was dethroned (1688).
		By its provisions and implications it gave political supremacy to Parliament and was supplemented (1701) by the Act of Settlement.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BillRighEng.html (232 words)

	Rights
		Some historical documents have talked about, or enumerated, the basic rights of each person, or human freedom.
		English Bill of Rights - England - 1689
		Bill of Rights - United States of America - 1791
	www.bessel.org /rights.htm (198 words)

	english bill of rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the...
		Bill of Rights, entitled "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown", is one of the basic documents of English...
		Parliament subsequently enacted the declaration as The Bill of Rights.
	learning-gd.com /articles/19/english-bill-of-rights.html (274 words)

	Social Knowledge Systems History Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		‘Rights’ are defined generally as ‘powers of free action.’ And the primal rights pertaining to men are undoubtedly enjoyed by human beings purely as such, being grounded in personality, and existing antecedently to their recognition by positive law.
		But leaving the abstract moral sphere, and giving to the term a juristic content, a ‘right’ is well defined as ‘a capacity residing in one man of controlling, with the assent and assistance of the state, the actions of others.’”
		Part of the laborers' wages was in the form of rights in the land, such as the right to glean stubble and dropped grain after the harvest and the right to obtain wood for fuel in common forests.
	www.socialknowledge.com /about/historyday.html (1589 words)

	The Constitution For The United States, Its Sources and Its Applications - Amendment Articles I - X
		See the Preamble to the Bill of Rights, and the True Bill Image of one of the few surviving documents of the proposed articles as submitted to the Freemen of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for ratification.
		In the Declaration of Rights submitted by Parliament to William III and Mary (1689) and accepted by them, it was said that the right to petition the King existed and that the prosecution of petitioners which had taken place was illegal.
		It was not until the reign of William IV (1836) that an act of the English Parliament gave to the accused the right to the assistance and protection of counsel in all cases of felony, that is, in which the offense is punishable by imprisonment or death.
	www.barefootsworld.net /consti11.html (8413 words)

	Lecture 10: Technology and Rights
		negative rights are rights of the rightholder not to be interfered with
		Part of the problem here is the way in which some rights have gone from being conceived of negatively to conceived of positively.
		Section 1: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject to reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~alatus/6101/Lecture10Rights.htm (968 words)

	ALA \| Bill of Rights
		Some points to cover are: the meaning of that particular amendment, why it was written, how the novel related to it, what reactions students had to both the novel and the amendment, and how the book might affect their opinion of the amendment.
		Have students draw up a bill of rights for their school to emphasize the meaning of this important document.
		In 1917, eight-year-old Lila's grandmother is an advocate for the right of women to vote, and Lila herself takes a stand for her freedom of speech when she persuades her father to allow her to march with her grandmother and other suffragettes.
	www.ala.org /ala/booklinksbucket/billrights.htm (2165 words)

	William's Expedition To England
		In France it was the turn of the Protestants to be persecuted, Their arrival in large numbers in England and Holland made any move towards toleration of Catholics in England impossible.
		A political group soon emerged to campaign for the removal of James, Duke of York from the succession to the throne and his replacement by either the Duke of Monmouth or by Mary, Princess of Orange, wife of William of Orange.
		Feeling that he was morally right, James ignored the obvious danger and decided to carry out the policy on his authority alone.
	www.kirkdale113.freeserve.co.uk /williams.htm (3698 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: The Bill of Rights, 1689
		That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
		And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliament ought to be held frequently.
		The said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England, France, and Ireland....
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1689billofrights.html (539 words)

	Gunston Hall Plantation - George Mason & Human Rights
		The following documents concerning basic rights and liberties either influenced, or were influenced by, George Mason's ideas and political thought.
		Mason's words, immortalized in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, carry considerable influence even today, as we have witnessed the dramatic fight for human rights throughout the world.
		These documents represent but a few examples of the timelessness and importance of the fight for human rights.
	look.net /gunstonhall/georgemason/rights.html (101 words)

	The Bill of Rights . . . under attack
		The human rights group has called on the US to reveal details of the alleged secret detention of suspects abroad.
		Michael Ratner, of the US campaign group Center for Constitutional Rights, said the report was the first to touch on the "netherworld of secret detention facilities that the CIA is running".
		The FBI has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and anti-war protest groups in what the groups charge is an attempt to stifle political opposition to the Bush administration.
	www.matrixmasters.com /blog/borattackblog.shtml (5902 words)

	The Avalon Project : English Bill of Rights 1689
		An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
		That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal;
		Upon which their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity of the kingdoms of England, France and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the resolution and desire of the said Lords and Commons contained in the said declaration.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/england.htm (839 words)

	The Creator's Bill of Rights
		That replacement, which I named "A Bill of Rights for Comics Creators" was accepted quickly on the first day of the Summit at Sim's suggestion.
		In doing so, they would shift the debate from rights and principles to clout and competition, but both developments would share a common premise, one worth considering even today; that creators already have the right to control their art if they want it; all they have to do is not sign it away.
		A bell went off (metaphorically) when I said that you'd done a bill of rights for comic artists.
	www.scottmccloud.com /inventions/bill/bill_of_rights.html (750 words)

	Bill of Rights Society
		On 20th February 1769, a lawyer, John Glynn, organised a meeting at the London Tavern to discuss the refusal of the House of Commons to accept the election of John Wilkes.
		At first the main objective of the society was to "maintain and defend the liberty of the subject, and to support the laws and constitution of the country." John Horne Tooke, who eventually became the most important figure in the Society, believed that the organisation should campaign for a radical programme of parliamentary reform.
		Tooke managed to do this but some members disagreed and it was this conflict that eventually brought the Bill of Rights Society to an end in 1771.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRbillofrights.htm (477 words)

	DH home : The Department of Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		New Bill delivers commitment to ban smoking in most workplaces
		Patricia Hewitt announces the Bill which will save thousands of lives by banning smoking in enclosed public places apart from licensed premises that do not serve or prepare food and private members' clubs.
		New health bill delivers commitment to ban smoking in most workplaces
	www.dh.gov.uk (345 words)

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