POLI 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Montesquieu, 1936 Soviet Constitution, Judicial Activism
11 Apr 2016
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Government: set of people who collecively run the state afairs. The public face of the state; govern, direct and orient the state. Insituions: paterns of rules and relaionships that shape the making of public policies. The insituions help to make the system predictable. Texts that formalize principles, rules and procedure of the government. Highest degree of laws within a state fundamental law. Include: individual rights, rules related to poliical life, separaion of power, 3 purpose of a consituion deine the fundamental principles of a state. Separaion of power (verically and horizontally), elecion, mandates, electoral system. Deine the nature of relaion between state and ciizens. Most advances consituion relaing to human rights, back then. In pracice the power was centralized, controlled by the cpsu. Poliical party were banned, all the representaives come from the same party so the consituion is bias. An unwriten consituion is a set of texts but also acts of parliaments, court rulings, convenions, customs, assembled together.
