POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Supreme Court Of Canada, Responsible Government, Parliamentary Sovereignty
10 Oct 2013
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Canada is a federal government: separated into a main parliament and provincial parliaments. Professor: interested in power, not the democratic aspects of canada. A legal code, operates within a geographical area (mainly in canada, subject to foreign laws in different countries) Only governments/institutions were covered by the constitution until 1982. Entrenches laws, hard to change: all laws must be consistent with the constitution. Once can only act against places that are constitutionally regulated/governed. Constitutions don"t guarantee those rights: can have additional rights through common law", laws that were not in the constitution. Before the canadian supreme court, there was only a british one in canada, called jcpc (judicial. A constitution is like a free, living organism: continuously grows and changes. Wasn"t created due to a popular movement, or looked up to: but it previously confirmed canada"s colonial relation with britain.
