Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Political Philosophy, Concurrent Jurisdiction, Private Law
9 Jan 2015
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Canadian legal system: the machinery that comprises and governs the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. The canadian legal system is the machinery that comprises and regulates government. Government in turn, is divided into three branches: the legislative branch creates law in the form of statutes and regulations, the executive branch formulates and implements government policy and law, the judicial branch adjudicates on disputes. Government law: the central ideas or principles that guide government in its work, including the kind of law it passes. Constitutional law: the supreme law of canada that constrains and controls how the branches of government exercise power. Charged with upholding the values of the nation . Liberalism: a political philosophy that emphasizes individual freedom as its key organizing value. The canadian constitution is not contained in one document. Rather, it is located in a variety of places, legislative and political, written and unwritten.
