POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liberal Democracy, Royal Assent, Pierre Trudeau
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The british parliament always had the power to change, or (cid:522)amend(cid:523) the written constitution. All written constitutions have the be amended or changed eventually, to adjust to changing conditions and problems unforeseen at the time of the country"s founding. The rule of law forbids the easy modification of the constitution in order to ensure no power abusal takes place. In a liberal democracy with a written or codified constitution, the amending formula for amending the written constitution is entrenched in the constitution itself. The bna act was a law passed by the british parliament, so only the. If the canadian government felt it was time to amend the bna act (just the constitution not the ordinary law), they would have to request it from the british government. In 1931, the statute of westminster was passed, and this law declared that in the future, the british parliament would never pass another.
