POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Rulemaking

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Kim Richard Nossal

Document Summary

Monday, february 4, 2013: necessity of base line equality. You also have to have one court within the political community to adjudicate conflicts and disputes between two levels of government: necessity of a procedure for amending the constitution. Assumes that the original conditions under which the federation was created, over time need to be abandoned: citizens must be allowed to express loyalty to mare than one level of government, secession to be made difficult in theory. The act secession is defined as leaving/ withdrawing from a federation. This assumption says that secession should never occur. Once you"re in the federation, you can"t leave. Dissolution: federation of the west indies (1958-1962, united states (1777-1790, czechoslovakia (1993) Peaceful secessions: norway (from sweden, 1905, montenegro (from state union serbia and montenegro, 2006)