PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Responsible Government, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Speech From The Throne
23 Mar 2016
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A consituion can give you some iniial insight into a country"s poliical climate insight into basic regime. Ex: saudi arabia"s preamble tells us it"s an islamic monarchy, france"s tells us it"s a liberal democracy. Can"s const preamble ideniies two of three fundamental pillars of our const (federalism and parliamentrism) By referring to syst similar to gb, it ideniies parliamentrism: first country in world to unite these two principles (third foundaion of our consituion is the charter) Key element in having a consituion similar to that of uk (westminster model) isn"t spelled out in const principle of responsible government. Basic principle of resp gov and the consequences derived from it are relevant today. Parliamentary supremacy parliament has authority to enact, repeal, modify, any law within its jurisdicion. Spelled out nowhere in consituion bna act contains no substanive limitaions of the power exercised by parliament. More relevant in context of charter of rights and freedoms.
