Year 11 - Citizenship
What does the law have do to with campaigning?
Synopticity: How do different ideas and concepts in Citizenship interconnect?
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Unit Summary
Pupils revisit key citizenship concepts from previous units and consider how they relate to each other, demonstrating their ability to draw together different areas of knowledge, skills and understanding.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how legislation can both support and limit campaigning and also how campaigns can influence legislation.
Key Notes
- Campaigning has a strong influence on changing or creating laws in the UK.
- Laws like the Human Rights Act protect the right to campaign and protest.
- Some see the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act as limiting protest rights.
- The women's suffrage movement helped lead to laws giving women equal voting rights.
- Stonewall's campaigns have helped change laws to protect LGBTQ+ rights and equality.
Vocabulary To Learn
- campaigning: actions or events organised by an individual or a group of people to achieve an aim
- legislation: a law or a set of laws that have been passed by Parliament; the word is also used to describe the act of making a new law
- rights: something we are entitled to by law
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Campaigning doesn't really make a difference to the law.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Campaigning has a strong influence on changing or creating laws in the UK. Laws like the Human Rights Act protect the right to campaign and protest.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'campaigning'
actions or events organised by an individual or a group of people to achieve an aim.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Campaigning doesn't really make a difference to the law. Correction: Campaigning has played a key role in major legal changes, like women's right to vote and LGBTQ+ equality laws.
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