POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patriation
25 Nov 2015
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Politics is about the study about who gets what when and how. The study of the influenced and the influential. Not just about fixed rules, but how we govern ourselves, and how. Statutes: a law passed by parliament, written law. Regulations: very specific, what kinds of rights that you have etc used implement a law in more detail, to specify what a general law may mean. Common law: judge made law, decisions made by the law to help with further cases (precedents) Conventions: general principles that we adhere to that are not part of our constitution. Different ways we can understand the nature of the law and relationship to politics. View law as an instrument of power that can be used by individuals and groups within society in order to seize the law in every possible way. Do not use the catalogue to find journal articles only books. Use the key words you find in searches to help the advanced.
