LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iceberg, Adam Shortt, Parliamentary Sovereignty
19 Apr 2016
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A constitution is the fundamental law of a political system, because all other laws must conform to the. It deals with two sets of relation: between the citizen and the state (empowers the state to pass laws in the name of the citizens/ limits the state to infringe of basics civic rights) Canada, based on territoriality: distribution of functions and powers between different parts of the states (in a federal system as. Federalism > a form of government that embodies the principal of territorial representation. It does so by giving regional governments the exclusive right to pass law on particular subjects. No or minimum subordination between levels of government. 3 constitutional moments: 1763: the royal proclamation > a very important document for aboriginal peoples, the 1867 constitutional act, separation of powers. Article 91 (24) and the m tis case > daniels v. Canada: the 1982 constitution, and the charter > the war measures act in 1970.
