POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Judicial Activism, R V Drybones

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Week 2: the charter of rights and freedoms. Entitlements that citizens can claim against the state and other citizens. Help to point out the things that the government cannot do and also points out things that the government must do, obligations. Types of rights freedoms (negative) freedom from: requires other parties including the government to refrain from doing something. Protections (negative: the idea that they require some party (the state) to protect us from harm, search and seizure. Benefits (positive: obligations to do something individual collective, duty owed to a group of people by virtue to their being apart of that group. British parliamentary system protects rights and individual freedoms: common law and parliamentary supremacy. The constitution of canada is the supreme law of canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect. Fundamental freedoms (negative, individual) freedom of religion, speech, assembly, press, association.

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