POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Responsible Government
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Judicial review by the supreme court as good as amendment. Litigation strategies to get things legislatures don"t provide. Should be more control over the appointments: unknown and unelected, yet powerful. Rights: preamble and conventions, 91 and 92, charter. Federal: all authority or sovereignty in one governing body, governing authority or sovereignty divided. Single legislature the ultimate judge of how much power is devolved. India, canada, germany, switzerland, australia: more diverse, potentially multiple official languages, expectations about a variety of religion, have sides". Authority is constitutionally divided between levels of government. Units are not beholden to the national government nor vice versa. Not subordinate, but co-ordinate: territories are subordinate, municipalities are subordinate to provinces. K. c. wheare federal government, classical federalism. Autonomy within spheres division of powers. Covers the totality of what can be done by government. Some overlap concurrent or shared jurisdiction (agriculture, environment) Ottawa and the provinces stick to their own business.
