POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wield, Responsible Government, Treasury Board

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2300
• Professor: Ajay Sharma

Document Summary

Overview: the executive: the political elites and decision-makers who preside over the direction of their respective governments, most often the strongest branch, formal executive, political executive, permanent executive. This chart just means we have layers. Head of state highest ranking figure in a sovereign state, serves as foremost ceremonial representative. In canada, this is the monarch (currently queen elizabeth ii). In practice, this position involves ceremonial duties as the face of the crown. Governor general carries out tasks on behalf of the monarch to ensure a functioning, constitutional government. In the past governor general and lieutenant governor they had a key role in letting the government do certain things: the governor general has to sign a law in order for the law to be past. Lieutenant governor the (cid:373)o(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:272)h"s (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tati(cid:448)e i(cid:374) ea(cid:272)h p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)e. These generals have a variety of formal executive powers: prerogative authority: grants final say to head of state on any matter not explicitly addressed in the constitution.