Declaration of Rights (Article I) of the Florida Constitution

Declaration of Rights (Article I) of the Florida Constitution 1. Do the rights identified in each document differ at all? No, they seem to be on the same path in all documents although in section describing Basic Rights they say “No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability” but then two sections later in the religious freedom section they say “There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof. Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety” so it seems as if they contradicted themselves in that particular section but other than that I’d have to say the remaining sections were quite fair and didn’t really differ. 2. Pay particular attention to the sections concerning religious liberties and rights, the right of gun ownership, cruel and unusual punishments and the death penalty in particular. Can you detect any difference in the language used to describe these rights in each document? No, there doesn’t seem to be a change or difference in the language. These sections all provide similar information. 3. How might any differences in the language affect the meaning of these rights? It can affect the meaning of these rights tremendously because if you have a change in language or person than the rights will seem very contradicting. 4. I also have a link to the European Union Declaration of Rights. This represents a contemporary and European vision of what rights should be in a political democracy. Is the list of rights in the EU Declaration more extensive than what we find in either the U.S. or Florida Constitutions? 5. Do the content of the rights defined in these documents differ? If so, how? What might explain these differences? Yes the rights tend to differ throughout the sections of article 1, for example in article 1 section 3 of religious freedom it says “There shall be