POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Displacement Activity, Elections Canada, Parliamentary System
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Whole concept of democracy is the way we elect people to parliament. Only canada and britain still use house of commons. City of westminster is a suburb of greater london. Because of striking similarities to the british parliamentary system, it can be said the canadian parliament is older than canada itself. Canada may be a new country, but our government system is not. Authority of parliament is based on the authority of the crown. Ideas in the carta are contained in the limiting their power. Power of the royal family has been reduced so they have no practical political power today, even in canada. Theoretically, nothing can happen in canadian politics without the approval of. Is an abstract constitutional principle
