Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Liberal Democracy, Sign Language, Negative And Positive Rights
11 Oct 2016
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Law 2101: the charter of rights and freedoms. The charter is meant to be interpreted in a broad sense, compared to statutes. The charter demands a different reasoning approach. The charter in particular, because it is an entrenched bill of rights, is that you are supposed to interpret it broadly and interpret exceptions to it, in a narrow way. Meant to be interpreted in a general, but progressive fashion. The federal law as the predominant rule on the criminal law, but not exclusive. Pierre e. trudeau was a huge advocate of this: played a huge role in the defeat of the referendum. In 1981, trudeau decided to go over their heads and go to the british house of. Commons and get them to pass it, and bring it back to canada. Up(cid:396)e(cid:373)e cou(cid:396)t of ca(cid:374)ada said he should(cid:374)(cid:859)t si(cid:374)(cid:272)e it seems unconstitutional.
