[POLS 3135] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (72 pages long!)
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What"s politics: struggle or conflict for power and authority. No political question that isn"t resolved in judiciary. Criminal law: crime against state: criminal code of canada, ex: robbery, murder. Administrative: body of law rising from problems in government bodies. We have right to seek remedies if we have been wronged. Procedural: how they have applied laws, whether procedures have been applied properly: we engage more in this branch everyday compared to other branches because government regulates so much of our lives. Positive law: laws with incentive like filing donations in tax forms gets tax rebates. Negative v. positive rights: political and civic rights, laws that limit us, charter is positive, non-political, socio-economic in nature. Difference between law and justice: justice = relative, discretionary, when written law is applied in full, it is just realists say that justice may not always be served. Don"t actively participate in the investigation instead they review the facts and make a decision.