Examples of bill of rights

• Waldron's objection against any bill of rights stems from the claim that people disagree about rights.

• Cunningham worked on privacy legislation, campaign reform, the patients bill of rights, the clean smokestacks bill, class size reductions and preservation of farmland.

• What follows is an argument in favour of a bill of rights that is subject to legislative and judicial review.

• A bill of rights does not negate political responsibility to legislate in the public interest.

• Most commentators assume that a bill of rights will only be effective if it allows judges to correct rights infringements that have occurred in legislation.

• This bill of rights did not have an appreciable effect on government decisions.

• This omission could have serious consequences for the vitality of a bill of rights.

• In so doing it questions the logic and justification for exclusive reliance on judicial interpretation of a bill of rights.