POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Westminster System, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Constitution Act, 1982
14 Dec 2016
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The state of nature as a state of chaos in which no individual could feel secure in his possession of property or life. Federalism: the federal principle that some matters properly belong to provincial societies and their governments to decide, while others are national and scope and properly decided by the parliament and government in ottawa. Constitution assigned to the other level it was free to do as it like: constitutionalism in the rule of law temper and modify the principle of majority rule in a democracy. Fundamental freedoms: section 2 of the charter, these include freedom of religion, belief, expression, the media, assembly, and association, during the pre-charter era, these were all part of common-law. Democratic rights: the basic democratic rate is the opportunity to vote in regular elections. Qu bec"s is probably the most extensive, including even certain economic and social rights. These rights are administered and enforced by provincial human rights commissions.
