Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pass Laws, Political Philosophy

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

The canadian legal system comprises and regulates government. Government has 2 branches: the legislative branch creates law in the form of statues and regulations, the executive branch formulates and implemments government policy and law. Government policy: the central ideas or principles that guide government in its work, including the kind of laws it passes: the judicial branch adjudicates on disputes. Constitutional law: the supreme law of canada that constrains and controls how the branches of government exercise power. Liberalism: a political philosophy that emphasized individual freedom as its key organizing value. The canadian legal system can be a very technical area. Canadian legal system: the machinery that comprises and governs the legislative executive and judicial branches of government. Legislative branch passes laws that impact on business operations. Executive branch implements policy that may be directed at business. Judicial brach provides ruling that resolve legal con icts and impacts future decisions. Located in a variety of places, written and unwritten.