SOSC 2350 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Instrumentalism, Negative Liberty, Peter Hogg

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2350
• Professor: Tanja Juric

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Parliamentary stage and the coming into force stage. A bill becomes an act when it receives royal assent, but legislation is not automatically in effect. On a day, or days specified in the act. On a day or days set by the governor in council (the governor general, on the advice of the federal cabinet): moral entrepreneur theory. Laws as a means to create or maintain a particular moral constitution of a society. Law as a means of stamping ideology with legitimacy & respectability . To maintain racial purity & to secure economic rights & interests with the ruling group. Makes rational what is desired by an individual or group (can t debate it without seeming immoral or amoral. Indian act: created to implement racial purity: mischief rule. Non-binding precedent or persuasive authority in the interpretation of statute law: interpretative strategies. Mischief rule attention should be given to the problem the statute was intended to solve .