POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Maritimes
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Means that it has an upper and lower house. The senate is the upper house, the house of commons is the lower house. The senate was created for various reasons: senate was part of a bargain of confederation/federalism the. Maritime provinces demanded fair representation in the senate. [the upper house] to compensate for their weak representation in the house of commons: senate is a check on the excesses of the masses connecting the li(cid:271)eral de(cid:373)o(cid:272)rati(cid:272) values. (cid:373)all (cid:862)l(cid:863) li(cid:271)erals did (cid:374)ot trust the masses as a source of political power. How to become a senate: property qualification to be a senator, this qualification for membership in the senate was created to ensure only men of substance can be senators same model of. British house of lords; dominated by landed aristocracy: appointments to the senate, positions were inherited in britain based on landed aristocracy and hereditary peers, because canadians were mostly immigrants, the senators in.
