POLSCI 3NN6 Lecture Notes - Public Law, Peaceful Coexistence, Limited Government
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That some advantages will balance out with the advantages of others: opportunity and likelihood of competition; if two people want the same thing; then they will compete for it. The order of society will break down and will lead to a state of constant war; in the absence of a common power, people will exist in a state of war; competition. Public law system is predicated on a single value: Overall view is a concern of government intrusion upon that liberty; British constitution is unwritten; developed through practice, developed through time and through conventions; Representative government was in place; there are a series of historical events that pushed us into confederation; raids from the us, trade from the uk, regional tensions that existed between canadian colonies. Formation of constitutions; ignore ideological underpinnings that flow from events; ideological underpinnings to the canadian constitution; pre-conceived notions play out in terms of hobbes and locke from a theoretical perspectives; echoes in both;