POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Constitutionalism, Supreme Court Act, Constitutional Law
20 Sep 2016
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Institutions (sets of legal and normative rules that determines who makes public policy and what policy are allowed to do and not allowed to do) When these three institutions are combines, parliamentary federalism is created. Australia is the only country in the world that has a combination of parliamentary federalism gov. Constitution: the highest level of law in the political system (con law trumps all other laws. If a law violates the constitution it becomes invalid: contains rules about how political power is structured, exercised and constrained, constitutions are rarely just single documents - most constitutions are not single documents. Constitutions are constantly being interpreted by the supreme court. Constitutionalism: constitutionalism : when the actors in the political system recognize the constitution as legiti- mate, play within its rules, and accept the judiciary"s(the courts) role in interpreting the consti- tution, elements of constitutionalism: Rule of law - everyone has to obey the rules of constitution.
