POLI 222 Lecture 7: Constitutional Amendment
4 Aug 2016
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Ruled by convention(uk will amend bna upon formal resolution of the hofc and senate) 192701980s: canadians can"t decide on a formal rule. 1981: supreme court patriation reference(red light green light) S. 43: one or more but not all: 44: parliament alone. From part ii: under s. 35. 1 aboriginal peoples to be consulted for constitutional amendments pertaining. Looking at the rules, to change the rules you have a better grasp of how the things work. Tells us who are the real parties to the covenant that is the confederation and what can we deduce from the rules. Baseline: acanda as a dominion created through an imperial statue, amended by strictly legislative rules by the imperial parliament. Legally speaking prior to 1982, it was an act of parliament chanhgeable according to rules of the british parliament. Not to say that the legal rules exhausted the way that the bna was amended between 1867 to it"s transformation into ca 1982.
