POLS 1000 Lecture 5: political systems (feb 3)
6 Feb 2017
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Constitution = fundamental rules and principals by which a state is governed. Establish rules and procedures by which gov, and state are run and understood. A process of legitimation in which the political community accepts gov. and state + what they"re doing bc they are following constitutional principles: legitimacy is constructed bc constitutional order is seen as being followed. Two major parts of constitutional orders: written/codified: formal document which specifies various principles. Cannot be easily changed by gov. (are untimely: formal amending process: (ex. ) Canadian charter of right and freedoms --> for some provisions you need unanimous consent (the highest threshold for constitutional changes: basic liberal assumption is that public protections through documents, like the. Omnibus legislation: forms of legislation in which many changes in law are packaged as one (an act to amend and consequential amendments to other acts: parliamentary system: gov. in power (pm), omnibus legislation introduced into.
