LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canada Act 1982, Constitution Act, 1982, Parliamentary Sovereignty

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The constitution act, 1867, (originally the british north american act, 1867) Under constitutional supremacy (although parliament can still made amendments to the constitution) as a federal state question three: what is a federal state? a federal state is comprised of shared sovereignty. In canada, autonomous duties are relegated to the provincial and the national legislatures: e. g. , canada and the united states, federal state, sovereignty is chared between different powers, e. g. , the united kingdom, unitary state, sovereignty in centralized. Question four, what was the first legislative attempt to protect individual rights? the canadian bill of rights, 1960, which was: a federal statues introduced by prime minister john diefenbaker, interpreted narrowly and not constitutionally entrenched. Question five: what legislation patriates the canadian constitution? the canada act, 1982, (u. k statute) schedule b of the canada act, 1982 is the constitution act, 1982, part 1 of the constitution act is the charter.

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