Public Order Laws Examples

Public order denotes keeping the public safe and keeping things orderly. Public order laws are laws that are created to stop riots, violent behavior and other activities or behaviors that can lead to serious public harm. Individual rights involve protecting an individual's right to do something regardless of its potential impact on public harm. An example of an individual rights law would be the law of free speech. In the United States, citizens are allowed to speak freely because of the first amendment and it does not matter whether or not this free speech adversely affects the government or the people.

An example of a public order law might be a law that restricts gun use in a particular area. The law might prohibit guns from entering based on the safety of the public, however, denying people the right to a weapon is an assault on the people's individual rights. Throughout the years, gun laws have been debated on the basis of public order law and the individual rights perspective.

Community rights are considered as an individual’s rights to the community. These rights include but not limited to; respect, corporation and participation. A basic example of community responsibility is an individual right to vote in elections. If I based my topic on the community in general, I would start with the fact that each individual is a

part of a larger community. Family, neighbors, tribe, village, city, county, state, region, country and the world form a larger community in the life of every human being. At the same time, full human potential cannot be reached if individuality is suppressed by society (2016 June 4, Nanzer, P. Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities). In all free societies there is a constant and unavoidable tension between rights and responsibilities. Every right has a corresponding duty (U.S. Department of State). It is the responsibility of the individual to watch over a community to make sure that standards are objective and beneficial to human life (Machan 2001).
Besides the rights of the community based upon the characters of their individual members, other community rights cater toward organizational persons. These include trade unions, chamber of commerce, corporations, trade associations and political parties to name a few. For this reason they created the Bill of Rights. All because the individual rights of the citizens must always come first.
Seeking the betterment of society is certainly a noble goal. However this means deciding who in that society is going to benefit from this betterment, and who is just going to have to suck it up and deal with getting the short end of the stick. Thus what often happens in a community oriented government is that a political party or cabal of powerful people will decide who is a part of their "society" and thus worthy of reaping the benefits of society, while everyone else is simply expendable in the name of the betterment of the "majority".
Simple examples are Nazi Germany feelings for the Jews, Roman Empires feelings towards their conquered territories, and 18th century Americans towards black people.

In each case the ruling majority deemed a group as a group that needed to be exploited for the betterment of society. I however refuse to believe that the betterment of society can ever be a justification for Tyranny. The rights of the individual always comes first and when all people have are treated with the same respect and offered the same rights as everyone else (regardless of if or how they choose to take advantage of what they are offered); that in of itself benefits

society.
To conclude, I think that although all rights are important, the rights of the community and the public are made up of the individual rights making individual rights the most important of the three. Some might say differently but the Bill of Rights was formed with the individual in mind.