The almost cool Charter
While on the subject of the Charter’s full name, one flaw is that it doesn’t yield a good acronym. CHRR? CHRAR? COHRAR? It just doesn’t work in the way that ACTHRA and NZBORA do.
But it might have. Section 6 of the Charter provides that:
(1) Only persons have human rights. All persons have the human rights set out in Part 2.
And the Charter’s definition section defines a person to mean ‘a human being‘.
So, it could have been the Charter of Human Beings’ Rights and Responsibilities, or COHBRAR for short. Now, that might have been cool.
I just stumbled across this blog and am loving it. I wish more academics at the Law School were doing stuff like this.
In regards to the name, while COHBRAR would have been cool, I think COHRAR is the clear winner of all the options.
I look forward to learning more about the Charter, a topic I know horribly little about.
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