POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Veto, Liberal Democracy, Judicial Activism
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> not business issues: phenomenon of a court party is not a new one. Dialogue: compatibility of the charter with democracy is reinforced by the notion of judicial review as a. The legislative process is influenced by but is not stopped in its tracks by a charter decision. Ultimate outcome is normally up to the legislative body. > the charter essentially accepted this role then entrenched the role of judges as interpreters and guardians of the rights it guaranteed: you cannot entrench rights in the constitution without some agency to monitor compliance. The judiciary was the obvious choice. : in one sense, charter is old news. In the other, it has changed things profoundly: micro level > forced us to update our laws of criminal evidence and procedure, required governments to rest their citizens equally, without discrimination (regardless of race, religion, sex, age). Because of charter, peoples rights have been put up front and centre.
