POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patriation, Constitutionalism
17 Oct 2017
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Introduction to judicial process and the judicial branch. Politics is the study of power -who has it, who doesn"t. Politics is about making decision about distributing resources- ex. budgets. Law: body of rules, enacted and applied by public of cials in a legitimate manner, backed by the force of the state. Laws have to be enacted legitimately - go through a number of processes. For a law to matter it has to be applied. Laws have to be backed by the state. Politics has to re ect a certain set of laws. Chief law : rule of law rule of law: equality before and under the law. Courts have been asked to sort out highly controversial and political issues. Catholic church was very powerful at the time. Duplessis governed quebec- dictator, acted as if the rules didn"t apply to him. Roncarelli was a restaurant owner and jehovah witness, and would bail jehovah witnesses from jail (he bailed out 390)
