Law 2101 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
7 Oct 2016
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A statement of individual and collective rights and freedoms. Patriated the british north america act, 1867 from uk parliament and renamed it the. Constitution act, 1867: also decided that uk could no longer adopt any measures that would affect canadian. Created formal constitutional amending formula for the first time (ss. Created and entrenched bill of rights into canadian constitution (charter of rights and. Freedoms: for the first time, canadians could claim fundamental rights in the courts, significantly increased powers of canadian judiciary. Analysis of supreme court ruling influences: study called canada a highly influential country among other supreme courts when ruling their constitution due to the clarity of the constitution. Rights create protected zones for people to act free of unjustified state interference. Where there is a right, there is a correlative duty on the state to respect the right.
