Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Constitution Act, 1982, Official Language, Determinative
30 Mar 2018
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1. tuesday oct 13th lecture (charter of rights & Statement of individual and collective rights and freedoms. Part of the canadian constitution, added in 1982. Charter of rights and freedoms is the first 34 sections of the constitution act, 1982. Courts of canada has been interpreting the charter in a more generous" fashion in more recent years. Patriated british north america act from the uk parliament, renamed it the. Also decided that the uk could no longer adopt any measures to affect the canadian constitution. Created formal constitutional amending formula for the first time. (ss. Created and entrenched a bill of rights into the canadian constitution. (charter of. For the first time, canadians could claim fundamental rights in the courts. Parliament"s laws were the supreme law, could be changed anytime. Rights create protected zones for people to act, free of excessive state interference. Where there is a right, there is a correlative duty on state to respect the right.
