PHILOS 2Q03 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
31 Mar 2018
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Section 33 of canadian charter of rights and freedoms: The government is allowed to overthrow what is in the charter. They are empowered to overthrow it: if a judge finds a piece of legislation unconstitutional, they are allowed to invoke section 33 which allows them to ignore the judgment for a period of 5 years. Parliament can ignore charter restrictions for a period of 5 years. **one of the greatest constitutions between canadian and american law** Question 1: answers (4 reasons: to keep us from doing bad things through our democratic processes (to protect us from abusing the powers of our society) A charter is nothing but a decide for limit the power of government: citizens are narrow-minded: they have little self control and are undisciplined, charters cute this. Thus, we must add to democracy certain guaranteed protections: constraints that will hold us back: to keep the government from doing things to citizens:
