POLI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Justiciability

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 221
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

Purposes of the constitution: rule book for the conduct of political life, defines key relationships between, executive, legislature, and judicial institutions, levels of gov"t: provinces and federal gov"t. This notion has been changed: 2 orders of gov"t seen as equals: citizens and gov"t. Whitaker quote about constitution as an agreement between elites : constitution is mostly about 2 levels of gov"t, and relationship between canada and uk. Doesn"t say much about relationships between the institutions. French and american constitutions have statements of values. Canadian constitution doesn"t mention values or relationship between citizens and gov"t: values are referred to through reference to the constitution of the uk: constitution similar in principle to that of the united. Kingdom. : uk doesn"t have a codified, written constitution: values are taken for granted, largely unwritten, but there nonetheless, principles were implicit in the uk constitution and therefore became implicit in the canadian constitution.