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Record W2229581093

The Pluralism of the Charter: Revisiting the Oakes Test

2009· article· en· W2229581093 on OpenAlexaffabout
Brian Slattery

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Law and Evidence
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCharterLaw and economicsPolitical scienceLawSubstantive due processSubstantive rightsFundamental rightsDeclarationDemocracyHuman rightsSociologyConstitutionPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms opens with the declaration that it “guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it,” thus assuring the constitutional status of the rights enumerated. However, section 1 goes on to say that this guarantee is “subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society,” thus recognizing that the rights are subject to “reasonable limits” that meet a certain standard. What the section fails to explain is the precise relationship between these two elements. In what way does the standard of “reasonable limits” interact with the rights guaranteed? There are two main answers to this question. The first holds that section 1 lays down a uniform standard that is “external” to the specific constitutional guarantees and only comes into play once an infringement of a substantive right has been found. We may call this the monistic approach, because it envisages a single standard applicable to the full range of Charter infringements, one that owes its character to the terms of section 1 itself. The second viewpoint holds that section 1 envisages a multiplicity of standards for assessing limits on Charter rights. These standards are tailored to the particular rights in question and form part of their effective definitions. In this sense they are “internal” to the substantive guarantees. Applying these standards is part and parcel of the process of determining whether specific Charter rights have been infringed. The standards all reflect the basic requirements set out in section 1, however, they are fleshed out with concrete criteria appropriate to the particular rights in question. We may call this the pluralistic approach, because it envisages a range of differing standards for judging limits on Charter rights. This paper weighs the relative merits of these two approaches and argues that the pluralistic approach is the one best suited to the heterogeneous character of the Charter and the rights it guarantees.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.626
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Citations3
Published2009
Admission routes2
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