Public Order Laws Examples

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Public order denotes keeping the public safe and keeping things orderly. Public order laws are laws that are created to stop riots, violent behavior and other activities or behaviors that can lead to serious public harm. Individual rights involve protecting an individual's right to do something regardless of its potential impact on public harm. An example of an individual rights law would be the law of free speech. In the United States, citizens are allowed to speak freely because of the first amendment and it does not matter whether or not this free speech adversely affects the government or the people.
An example of a public order law might be a law that restricts gun use in a particular area. The law might prohibit guns from entering based on the safety of the public, however, denying people the right to a weapon is an assault on the people's individual rights. Throughout the years, gun laws have been debated on the basis of public order law and the individual rights perspective.
Community rights are considered as an individual’s rights to the community. These rights include but not limited to; respect, corporation and participation. A basic example of community responsibility is an individual right to vote in elections. If I based my topic on the community in general, I would start with the fact that each individual is a …show more content…

In each case the ruling majority deemed a group as a group that needed to be exploited for the betterment of society. I however refuse to believe that the betterment of society can ever be a justification for Tyranny. The rights of the individual always comes first and when all people have are treated with the same respect and offered the same rights as everyone else (regardless of if or how they choose to take advantage of what they are offered); that in of itself benefits

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