POLS 3140 Lecture 5: Lecture 5_ Jan 22, 2019 (1)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3140
• Professor: Dave Snow

Document Summary

Charter critics and charter supporters in the new millennium. Advocacy organizations using the courts as an avenue to achieve political change. We had rights before the charter, argued there is no serious debate about the minimum protection (religion, fair trial, social equality, criticizing government) Judicial decisions are permanent because they are interpretations of the charter. No one argues with this - they become constitutionalize. Ted morton (student of peter russell, minister in pc government, finance minister) Book changed the game in terms of academia around the charter. Conservative political scientists who our professor knows personally, and wrote other books with. The "court party" thesis - morton and knopff (2000) "charter revolution" akin to the quiet revolution in quebec. Quiet revolution revolutionized canadian politics - "changed what politicians focused on" Authors say that the same thing has happened with the charter. Constitution is supreme, charter makes it supreme on all other areas.