Rights

Traps in Rights

• Confuses legal remedies and writs
  Habeas corpus: produce a detained person before the court. Mandamus: compel a public officer to perform a duty. Certiorari: quash a decision of a lower court or tribunal. Injunction: restrain a person from doing something. Prohibition: stop a lower court exceeding its jurisdiction.
• Picks a closely related concept
  Learn related terms as contrasting pairs with one-line definitions, then identify which one the stem describes.
• Gives only one part of the concept
  Recall the full definition and check the option covers it, not just one component.
• Confuses rights and duties
  Rights are entitlements (life, expression, movement). Duties/obligations are what citizens owe (pay taxes, obey laws, vote, defend the state).
• Over-generalises a feature
  Political systems vary; options with all/always/never are usually wrong unless the definition itself is absolute.
• Reverses the principle or its effect
  Ask what problem the principle is meant to solve; the right answer serves that purpose, the reversal defeats it.