GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Constitution Act, 1982, Elijah Harper, Clyde Wells

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Fatemeh Firouzi

Document Summary

The constitution act, 1982, sets out the requirement that one of the following four formulas, determined by the subject matter, has to be used to amend the formal constitution: A majority in the house of commons (and in the senate) plus a majority in each provincial legislature. This is needed for amendments that change: the offi(cid:272)e of the quee(cid:374), the go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)o(cid:396) ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al, a(cid:374)d the lieute(cid:374)a(cid:374)t governor, the (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that a province have at least as many seats in the. House of commons as it had in the senate in 1982: (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)al p(cid:396)o(cid:448)isio(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the use of e(cid:374)glish a(cid:374)d f(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)h, the (cid:272)o(cid:373)positio(cid:374) of the up(cid:396)e(cid:373)e cou(cid:396)t of ca(cid:374)ada; a(cid:374)d, the a(cid:373)e(cid:374)di(cid:374)g formulas. A majority in the house of commons (and in the senate) and a majority in at least two-thirds of the provincial legislatures that represent at least one-half of the population of all the provinces.