Year 11

What are rights and where do they come from?

Year 11

What are rights and where do they come from?

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore what rights are and how they developed from Magna Carta to the Human Rights Act 1998.

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5 Questions

Q1.
True or false, King Henry VIII signed the Magna Carta?
Correct answer: False
True
Q2.
True or false, the Human Rights Act 1998 was the first time law had been written down in the UK?
Correct answer: False
True
Q3.
True or false, the UK has a representative democracy?
False
Correct answer: True
Q4.
True or false, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was introduced before the European Convention of Human Rights?
False
Correct answer: True
Q5.
True or false, as a UK citizen, you can take your complaint of a human rights issue to a UK court?
False
Correct answer: True