[PO263] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (49 pages long!)
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Constitutional functions: establish which officers or institutions will exercise certain forms of political authority. Political authority consists of 3 types: legislative power (power to make policy), executive power (power to execute or administer that law or policy) and judicial power (the power the settle questions about specific violations of the law). Institutions: regular patterns of behaviour that provide stability and regularity in social [political] life; sometimes these patterns are given organizational form with specific rules of membership and behaviour. Laws are institutions because they are patterns of behaviour that provide stability and regularity in social life. They help us define what is legitimate: to establish the relative authority of different levels of government. Constitution will be divided into two different levels: federal and provincial. Residual powers: the constitution can adapt : to mark out the limits of state power with the respect to the population.
