Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enumerated Powers, Patriation, Responsible Government
19 Apr 2018
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What is an institution: (cid:862)institutions are sets of congealed rules(cid:863) ie. family, marriage, parliament, penal system, modern federations, usa, 1789, switzerland, 1848, canada, 1867. Initially, provinces were very weak: united two canadas, ns and nb. Features of bna act: bicameral legislature, senate supposed to represent the regions of the country, creation of strong central govt, joined federal principles with a parliamentary system, had never been done before. Important sections in bna act: section 91 exclusive federal powers, section 92 exclusive provincial powers, section 95 concurrent powers. Key factors: produced completely new interpretation of federalism, produced a constitution full to abeyances (gap in constitution, could not agree on what it should say. Amending formula: originally wanted to make british parliament vote on this, continued a political system marked by executive dominance. What bna act created: created a flexible system of shared authority that has evolved considerably, federal origins left unclear, o(cid:373)e through federalis(cid:373) (cid:449)as a(cid:374) agree(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) t(cid:449)o (cid:858)ra(cid:272)es(cid:859): e(cid:374)glish and.
