Skip to main content
institutional access

You are connecting from
Lake Geneva Public Library,
please login or register to take advantage of your institution's Ground News Plan.

Published loading...Updated

Who Better to Defend Liberty: Judges or Politicians?

Do you trust judges more than politicians? How you answer this question largely determines whether you like Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the "notwithstanding clause." Without Section 33, the Charter would not have been incorporated into the Canadian Constitution in 1982. Section 33 gives Parliament and the ten provincial legislatures the power to overturn judges' interpretations of certain constitution…
DisclaimerThis story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.

1 Articles

Do you trust judges more than politicians? How you answer this question largely determines whether you like Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the "notwithstanding clause." Without Section 33, the Charter would not have been incorporated into the Canadian Constitution in 1982. Section 33 gives Parliament and the ten provincial legislatures the power to overturn judges' interpretations of certain constitution…

Think freely.Subscribe and get full access to Ground NewsSubscriptions start at $9.99/yearSubscribe

Bias Distribution

  • There is no tracked Bias information for the sources covering this story.

Factuality 

To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium

Ownership

To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage

大纪元 Epoch Times broke the news in on Friday, August 29, 2025.
Sources are mostly out of (0)
News
For You
Search
BlindspotLocal