Bill of rights

The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens.

An entrenched bill of rights cannot be amended or repealed by a country's legislature through regular procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution, and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments.

The history of legal charters asserting certain rights for particular groups goes back to the Middle Ages and earlier.

[12][13] In 1973, Federal Attorney-General Lionel Murphy introduced a human rights Bill into parliament, although it was never passed.

[14] Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has argued against a bill of rights for Australia on the grounds it would transfer power from elected politicians to unelected judges and bureaucrats.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights .
Draft of the United States Bill of Rights , also from 1789
The Bill of Rights 1689 is an Act of the Parliament of England asserting certain rights.