Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Study Guide - Substantive Law, Private Law, Property Law

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The canadian legal system is the machinery that comprises and regulates government, divided into three branches: legislative branch creates law in the form of statutes and regulations. Passes laws that impact on business operations: executive branch formulates and implements government policy. Implements and generates policy that may be directed at business: judicial branch adjudicates on disputes. Provides rulings that resolve existing legal conflicts but also impact on future disputes. Government policy the central ideas or principles tat guide government in its work, including the kind of law it passes. Constitutional law the supreme law of canada that constrains and controls how the branches of government exercise power. Liberalism a political philosophy that elevates individual freedom and autonomy as it key organizing value. Constitutional conventions important rules that are not enforceable by a court of law but that practically determine or constrain how a given power is exercised.