POLS 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Equal Protection Clause
10 Apr 2016
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Need to understand how they work in practice (influences external actors have on them) Institutions: rules, procedures and organizations that structure social interaction by constraining and enabling actors" behaviour. Formal institutions: institutions that are officially established and recognized. Set of fundamental principles according to which state or other organization is governed (the rules make up the constitute) Power of legislature is supposed to be determined by constitution. Ecuador: articles 10 and 71-74 of the constitution recognize the inalienable rights of ecosystems to exist and flourish, give people the authority to petition on the behalf of ecosystems. Mexico: constitution of 1917 is the first such document in the world to grant social rights (health care) but universal health care not available until 2000s. Article 21: all persons are equal before and under the law in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life and in every other respect and shall enjoy equal protection of the law.
