SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Individualism
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Recite remember what you have read. Democracy: collection of people deciding out they want society to function. We live in a representative democracy: someone in charge, listening to other people"s opinions. Liberal party and there beliefs: equality, individualism, personal freedom the house of commons proposes, and we just choose who we thing may be the best representation of us. If we were a pure democracy we would have to vote on every single thing, We are but we"re not democratic because the senate can overrule anything wouldn"t be sufficient: they don"t, has to be finalized by the governor general who is. Is it right for the senate to have the final say? appointed by the queen. Majority is usually the high class, white men etc. Minority is full of minorities, women, aboriginal rights. Whole idea is of democracy is subjective, canada is a claimed democracy to a certain extent and to certain members of society,