POLB50Y3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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What could our government look like: classical notion of democracy: direct participation/instead of representative (switzerland, chi(cid:374)ese go(cid:448)"t: top-down. Stable leadership organized within essentially one party state: religious based: laws emanate out of constitution (canada). Canada has no separation of church and state. Britain is unitary state all of sovereignty emanates from the centre: us: three branches. Canada"s backstory: geography (cid:862)if so(cid:373)e (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries ha(cid:448)e too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h history, (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h geography(cid:863)- mackenzie king, mercator, canada is large, dimensions, the east/west distance bw cape spear, newfoundland, and yukon/alaska border is approx. Indigenous politics happening in this state for very long time: english, began to take primarily us eastern sea border. Much higher level of immigration from english than france: american. May 4/2017: us leaves, canadians decided to stick around which created space we have today, european, london secured loyalty/cooperation of french canadians.