POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Michel Foucault, Parliamentary System, Byrsonima Crassifolia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

Pog 100 lecture 7 : the branches of the state, how to balance power: michel foucault , thinker of the week , he writes about power. Power is not in the hands of those who govern , everywhere that power exists, it is being exercised bureaucracy is an extension of the executive branch. The legislature: its one branch which ensures what the executive can do, the executive is bound by the rule of law, 105 seats in the senate, guaranteed number of seats for region, quebec, maritime, ontario, Western canada each get 24 , territories and new found land and labrador get 9 seats. Legislative structures: unicameral with monarch , single legislative chamber, unicameral republics, bicameral with monarch, bicameral republics, house of commons, they don"t address each other, they address the speaker, in republics, they speak to each other. Cant start saying things that are out of line with their party.