Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Federalism, Abortion Clinic, American Civil War
8 Dec 2016
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Government jurisdiction shared by two levels of government: (i) national and (ii) regional/provincial/state: 3. Each level of government is independent from the other, and they derive their governing powers from the constitution. Courts are designated to settle federal / regional constitutional disputes: courts are the nal authority to settle a dispute, 6. Example is health care health is a provincial responsibility mainly but federal government has bulk of the federal tax powers. Judicial interpretation (informal/formal) when there is question of interpretation in the constitution acts , its the courts that pour in the meaning of what is meant by what the constitution means and informally amending it. Last two are important because the constitution is hard to amend when formal because they last for ages and if it is going to be changed it will be a very slow process: 7.
