POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Supreme Court Act, Constitutional Law, Constitutionalism
15 Sep 2017
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Poli 1p98 - lecture 3 - the canadian constitution: the master institution. Definition: sets of legal and normative rules that determines who makes public policy and what policy actors are allowed to do and not to do. Legal rules are enforced through law, normative rules are informal. Canada has a prime minister and not a president. The idea that canada has two sovereign levels of government: national and. United states popularized federalism, switzerland created it. Idea that you have a constitution and everyone abides by it. United states and britain both had large influences on canada"s constitution. Through all three institutions, parliamentary federalism is created. Definition: the highest level of law in a political system and contains rules about how political power is structured, exercised, and constrained. Constitutions are rarely just single documents, intended to be the most permanent law. Written parts of constitutions can be changed through the use of amending formulae.
