Political Science 3370F/G Lecture Notes - Parliamentary Sovereignty, October Crisis, Roy Romanow
15 Apr 2014
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The readings begin with an introduction to the origins of the charter. It starts with discussing the process of british parliamentary supremacy, the system of the united nations post-1945, as well the motivation that sparked the trudeau backed movement of entrenching the charter and its corresponding rights. The readings state that the movement of civil rights in. From 1867 to 1960, parliament was supreme, with courts rarely striking down statues that violated rights and freedoms. Supreme court had the power to construe and apply federal laws in conformity with the. The issue at hand in this period though was that the. Supreme court chose to defer to parliament even when the conflict between a statue and the bill was too obvious to ignore. The last period is the most recent, beginning in 1982, when canadian courts were given the power and duty to remedy unjustified infringements of the charter of.
