POLS 3135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Keystone Pipeline, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Logical Consequence
11 Jun 2017
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Power given to the federal government, unique to the other enumerated heads of power; lack of specificity. The constitution act, bna, explicitly outline what the enumerated heads of power are. Feds are responsible for creating laws that have something to do with national interest, uniformity from coast to coast when it comes to specific issues. Military, creation of criminal law, licesing of marriages and divorces, the constitution gives the federal government power to create laws under. Overlapping matters of jurisdiction, feds have the authority to create laws in areas that are concurrent with the provinces. How is it that we can discuss whether or not the overlap is unconstitutional, who has the authority to do what. The provinces, specific power given are actually broader than those given to the federal government. Civil rights and property, that"s huge, secondly, matters that are of local interest, principle that government that is closest to the issue should have the authority to create laws.
