POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tim Hortons, Constitution Of The United Kingdom, Law Of Canada
6 Feb 2018
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Indigenous people were allowed to vote in 1960, had to give up status. Politicians usually have a lack of trust. Its about balancing competing interests and views. Politics arises from the fact of scarcity. Different de nitions in box 1. 1: agree that politics is about power, they disagree about what power relations. Political con ict is about where to draw the line between the public and private realms. The ability to in uence what happens not restricted to government. Three reasons or "faces of power: coercion (force), in uence (persuasion), authority (legitimate, eg. Democracies rely mainly on in uence and authority, but coercion is also used. Every democracy has courts, police and prisions. The constitution: purpose of a constitution, canadas constitution, responsible parliamentary government in canada. Constitutions may be written (codi ed) - eg. american constitution; or unwritten (uncodi ed) eg. british constitution or a mix of both eg. canada.
