Rights and Responsibilities: Vocab

Flashcards covering key vocabulary terms from Chapter 6: Your rights and responsibilities.

Rights

Entitlements that people have under the protection of the law and/or moral authority. Refer to a way that people should be treated, often fairly, respectfully, and equally.

Responsibilities

Legal or moral obligations that a person may have to another person; to a group; or to the state, society or other people generally.

Express rights

Civil and political rights that are clearly and absolutely outlined in the Australian Constitution.

Implied rights

Civil and political rights that can be inferred from the Australian Constitution, rather than being expressly stated.

Negligence

Carelessness; a tort that involves breach of a duty of care resulting in harm that could have been foreseen.

Charter of Rights

Also referred to as a Bill of Rights; a legal document or charter, setting out the most important rights of citizens in relation to their country.

Defamation

The act of making statements or suggestions that cause damage to a person’s reputation in the community.

Self-determination

The right of people to determine their political status or how they will be governed based on territory or national grouping, as well as the right to pursue their own economic, social and cultural development.

Political autonomy

Self-determination, independence.

Ratification

(of a treaty) is a formal ceremony after a treaty has been signed, whereby the parties to the treaty exchange solemn confirmations of it.

Self-executing

(of a treaty) Automatically becoming binding on a state party to the treaty as soon as the treaty has been ratified.