Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Constitution Act, 1982, Concurrent Jurisdiction, Public Law

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Cristin Keller

Document Summary

Mos chapter 2: the machinery that comprises and governs the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. Legislative branch the branch of government that creates statute law (laws done by people we elect) Statute law formal, written laws created or enacted by the legislative branch of government. Jurisdiction the power that a given level of government has to enact laws. The canadian constitution: contained in several different documents, all canadian laws must comply with the canadian constitution, is difficult to change a special amending formula must be met. Example: the office of prime minister does not formally exist in our constitutional documents. (but no one will change the authority of the pm despite nowhere in the constitution it says that we will elect the pm) The constitution act (1867): one of the docs that is part of the constitution used to be called the bna.