PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: National Post, Judicial Restraint, Andrew Coyne
16 Nov 2016
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Medical aid to assist dying is legal : in 5 us states ( oregon, washington ,vermont,montana , and california, belgium , the netherlands, luxembourg and now canada. In canada prior to 2015 - prohibition against assisted suicide: s. 241 (b) of the criminal code : every one who (b) aids or beds a person to commit suicide, whether . Sue rodriguez : diagnosed with als in 1991 , given a year to live in 1993, applied to supreme court to strike down criminal code provisions, on bass of charter rights (sections 7, 12, 15) Rodriguez v bc : 5 - majority against rodriquez, no violation of sec. Parliamentary supremacy: constitutional concept in parliamentary democracies. The legislative branch has absolute sovereignty , is supreme over other branches of governments: including the executive and the judiciary. The legislative may change or repeal any previous legislation , and so it is not bound by written law or by precedent.
