POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Unanimous Consent

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Monarchy, composition of supreme court, amending formula: unanimous consent. National matters 7/50 rule : protects large and small. Matters that affect only the federal government: consent of parliament. Matters that affect only one province: consent of that province"s legislature and parliament. Amendments since 1982: one using 7/50 formula. Aboriginal rights (1983: two under federal jurisdiction. 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. North and south vietnamese are very different. Vast country, yet unitary: one time zone. Allows for the consensual merging of independent units (i. e. colonies in. Allows for protection of local traditions (southern states and slavery, quebec and french) Allows for the maintenance of separate local/regional/national identity after the creation of a new national identity. Allows for governance to be more local and this more sensitive to local conditions: more large countries are federation (russia, canada, usa, brazil,

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