LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: All Lives Matter, Canada Act 1982, Individual And Group Rights
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What is the legislation that forms the basic structure of canada"s political institutions: the constitution act, 1867 (british north america act, 1867) What is a federal state: a federal state is comprised of shared sovereignty. In canada, autonomous duties are relegated to the provincial and the national legislatures. What was the first domestic legislative attempt to protect individual rights in canada: the canadian bill of rights, 1960. Narrowly interpreted - introduced into a judicial culture and they weren"t ready for it. What legislation patriates the canadian constitution: the canada act, 1982 (u. k. We have the power to change our own constitution. The culmination of the english civil war helped to establish what important legal: the rule of law. This lecture will be talking about the liberalist view of rule of law. An introduction to the study of the law of the constitution (1885: believed that the rule of law is comprised of three things:
