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The following passage was written in the late 1980s.

Problem · Legal recognition and preservation of aboriginal rights

Partial solution · Constitutional protection of aboriginal rights

Preserves those rights already legally recognized

New problem · Inconsistent recognition and establishment of constitutional aboriginal rights by provincial (lower) courts

Provincial courts responsible to interpret Constitution

Define · Aboriginal rights

Ownership of land and resources, self-government, legal recognition of customs

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Example · Of obstacles to recognition of rights by provincial courts

Provincial courts interpret the right to recognition of customs as applying only to customs held prior to colonization; but aboriginal societies lack legal documentation from that time

Revisit problem · Difficult to establish aboriginal rights in practice

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Example · Of difficulty establishing rights in practice

Provincial court interpreted “ownership” of land in very limited sense

Author’s perspective · On land ownership ruling

Provincial court’s interpretation was too limited, outcome is regrettable and unsatisfactory

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We’re trying to support the claim that the court’s ruling was “excessively conservative in its assessment of the current law.” The court’s ruling was that “ownership” did not include the sale of land or its resources. In order to establish that this ruling is too conservative based on current law, we want to show that current law actually tends to treat “ownership” as including the sale of land and its resources. In other words, current law tends to include more rights as part of “ownership.”

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This lends the most support by helping to establish that the court’s ruling was too conservative in light of existing law. Other courts interpret “ownership” as granting more rights. So, by interpreting “ownership” as granting fewer rights than the other courts did, the 1984 provincial court’s ruling was too conservative.

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(B) doesn’t help establish anything about the current law and how it treats “ownership,” so it doesn’t help establish that the court’s ruling was too conservative in its assessment of current law.

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The 1984 court also distinguished the right to use land from the right to sell it. So (C) doesn’t help establish that the 1984 court’s ruling was too conservative in its assessment of existing law.

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(D) doesn’t help establish anything about the current law and how it treats “ownership,” so it doesn’t help establish that the court’s ruling was too conservative in its assessment of current law.

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(E) doesn’t help establish anything about the current law and how it treats “ownership,” so it doesn’t help establish that the court’s ruling was too conservative in its assessment of current law.

PrepTest 118 - Section 2 - Passage 4 - Question 25

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