Bill of rights
Sir _j have to agree with Susan Taylor (August 3), that different parliaments cater to the demands of different groups and that political parties wield excessive amounts of power. However the only remedy to this does not lie in a Bill of Rights, but in making our politicians more to the people in their electoratf. The
checks on government which we already possess have always been proposed by the people in answer to specific abuses of power by governments, e.g., Magna Carta and the 1688 Bill of Rights. This latest Bill of Rights has been proposed by the Government as an attempt to define our rights and thereby dictate to us how they are to be administered. The attempt to reconcile freedom of association with compulsory unionism is just one example, showing that it is the Government that will decide just how many rights and freedoms we will be allowed.—Yours, etc., MATTHEW S. JENKINSON. August 8, 1985.
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