POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Unanimous Consent

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Kim Richard Nossal

Document Summary

Canada: from 1867 to 1982: amended by british parliament. Amending formula after 1982: monarchy, composition of supreme court, amending formula: unanimous consent (sec. 41: national matters: 7/50 rule - consent of parliament and legislatures of 2/3 of provinces, provided that those provinces have 50 per cent of the population (sec. 42. 1: matters that affect only the federal government: consent of. 44: matters that affect only 1 province. One using 7/50 formula: strengthening aboriginal rights. Assumptions of federalism: the most important assumption: all players in the system must be committed to power-sharing. Federalism cannot work unless there is a willingness to share power: the case of vietnam, the case of china vast place in terms of geographic size. The central peoples government in beijing has no desire to share political authority with anyone. Allows for the consensual merging of independent units (e. g. , colonies in. Allows for the protection of local traditions (southern states and slavery;