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Section 2.13. All citizens have the right to use reasonable force to defend self and family under threat of violence. Reasonable force defined as up to and inflicting bodily harm on the antagonist, short of death.

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    Administrator #1  •  2020-08-20 17:38:34

    Section 2.13. Section 2.13. All citizens have the right to use reasonable force to defend self and family under threat of violence. Reasonable force defined as up to and inflicting bodily harm on the antagonist, short of death.

      • Caledonialan

        Section 2.13. "Reasonable force defined as up to and inflicting bodily harm on the antagonist, short of death." is not grammatical. Also, whether death ensues or not is not dependent on how reasonable the force may have been. This would appear to do away completely with the defence of justifiable homicide in self-defence. The right to "self-"defence should include the right to defend others, whether family members or not. This provision goes (in my view unjustifiably) further than Article 2(2) ECHR. To the extent that it does so, this should be a matter for a Criminal Code, rather than a constitution.

          • J M Tait

            Section 2.13. I agree with Caledonialan that the phrase 'short of death' is counter-productive, and should be removed, for exactly the reasons that he states.

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Proposed Amendment to Section 2.13.

  • NSCNICK

    Section 2.13. Section 2.13. All citizens have the right to use reasonable force to defend self and family under threat of violence. Reasonable force defined as up to and inflicting bodily harm on the antagonist, short of death and does not extend to excessive force involving extra-judicial punishment

Proposed Amendment to Section 2.13.

  • ROBERT MAC LACHLAN

    DEFENCE OF SELF AND ONE'S PROPERTY

    Section 2.13. Section 2.13. All citizens have the right to use reasonable force to defend self, family and property under threat of violence. Reasonable force defined as up to and inflicting bodily harm on the antagonist, short of death and does not extend to excessive force involving extra-judicial punishment

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