POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patriation
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Founding moment: confederation in 1867: concrete written forms of the constitution, patriation in 1982: partial separation from british parliament. Rules setting out the structure and principles of a regime (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute(cid:863) the regi(cid:373)e: starting the regime, the regime is currently abstract, need to make it more concrete. Who will exercise authority: well left to constitution, good at giving guidance and providing answers, three powers: Legislative power( make laws: executive power (implement laws) Diving power: canada, multiple levels of government, constitution is a good way of understanding who has the power, federalism, advent of written constitution, contractual in constitution relationship between people and state. Limiting government power: creating space for liberty/limitation on what governments can do, preserve space for liberty, constitution has some form of sovereignty over the government, permanent status over the government. If (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:374)l(cid:455) o(cid:272)(cid:272)urs (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:373)ajorit(cid:455) agrees, the(cid:374) there(cid:859)s large impact of population.
