MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Political Philosophy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

The canadian legal system is the machinery that comprises and regulates government. The canadian legal system- along with the constitutional law that governs it0 can be an overwhelming and sometimes very technical are. Canadian constitution located in a variety of places, both legislative and political, written and unwritten. Written elements of the constitution: constitution act, 1867 (part of which divides legislative power between the federal and provincial governments) and the canadian charter of rights and. Freedoms enforceable by a court of law but that practically determine how a given power is exercised by government. Constitutional conventions: important rules that are not. Legislative branch: the branch of government that creates. Statue law: formal, written laws created or enacted by the statute law legislative branch of government: e. g. Criminal code of canada, which inhibits a variety of: tobacco access act offences (assault, theft, and fraud) Legislative branch is made of three levels; deferral, provincial and municipal.