POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Legal Awareness, Civil Society, Developed Country
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12:08 pm: impact of the charter is revolutionary, the de jury effect cannot be understated, however, there is also effects outside of the legal realm. Look up loyola school decision ethics course from a neutral standpoint. All schools within quebec must teach a generic religious. There could not be bias towards a particular denomination towards religion. It had to be a more secularist attempt. One major effect of the charter: there is a charter debate beyond the constitutional sphere, one crucial debate concerning the adoption of the charter was the legitimacy of judicial activism. There is a counter majoritarian difficulty embedded in judicial review undemocratic. However, we have a constitution which many view as. Unelected judges decide the relevance of legislation that was adopted by elected politicians. In their opinion, they believed it was undemocratic. There has been an ongoing debate about the topic: the classic argument for judicial review are the least bias compared to the other branches.
