LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Canada Act 1982, Responsible Government, Parliamentary Sovereignty
25 Feb 2014
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Law, state, and citizen in a settler society. The living tree doctrine is a where law is constantly growing and changing doctrine. Until the early 1600s, the british monarch"s legitimacy was supported by the doctrine of the divine right of kings. At that time, parliament was merely a temporary advising committee for the sovereign. At the beginning of the 1600s, there was a growing sensation of unfair taxation and anti-catholic sentiments pushed parliamentarian to attempt to limit the king"s arbitrary power. The english civil war was fought between royalist and. By 1688, the role of the monarch was re-established but tempered with a bill of rights. In 1603, queen elizabeth i died and james i took over. Guy fox was a revolutionary catholic and tried to kill james i who was protestant. James i is criticized for his use of arbitrary power. After death in 1625, charles i takes over.
