LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Constitutionalism, Pith
24 Dec 2016
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To endure overtime, a constitution must have rules and principles capable of providing an exhaustive legal framework for our system of government. No single principle can be defined in isolation from the others, nor does any one principle trump or exclude the operation of any other. There is still however, an acknowledged importance of unwritten constitutional principles in our system of government. 6 major organizing principle of the constitution: federalism. Federalism was a legal response to the underlying political and cultural realities that existed at confederation and continue to exist today. Federal-provincial division of powers was a legal recognition of the diversity that existed among the initial members of confederation, granting significant powers to provincial governments to protect minorities. Federalism was the political mechanism by which diversity could be reconciled with unity. Pursuit of collective goals by cultural and linguistic minorities. The social and demographic reality of quebec explains the existence of. Quebec as a unified political unit: democracy.
