POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unitary State, Context-Dependent Memory

• School: UTSC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLB50Y3
• Professor: Christopher Cochrane

Document Summary

Federalism in canada all the social causes in lecture 2. Contextual effects regio(cid:374)s are differe(cid:374)t (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause there"s so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out livi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) those regio(cid:374)s that make people different (, living in alberta, the experience will change you). Unitary sovereignty - central government regional government, regional government. Confederal sovereignty --- regional government, regional government central government. Federal sovereignty regional government, regional, regional. Sovereignty equals no one above you, final decision on everything within a geographic territory. All power is centralized, and sovereignty within the central government. Regional/municipal governments are created by federal to take care of local needs, that the federal government may be to preoccupied to adequately handle. The central government has full control over local government, can give more power. Sovereignty lies with local government but they decide to collectively agree that some decisions are made best by a higher form of government.