MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Concurrent Jurisdiction, Political Philosophy, Clean Hands

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

Document Summary

There are 3 branches of government: the legislaive branch creates law in the form of statutes and regulaions, the execuive branch formulates and implements government policy and law, the judicial branch adjudicates on disputes. Government policy is the central ideas or principles that guide the government in its work, including the kind of law it passes. Consituional law is the supreme law of canada that constrains and controls how the branches of government exercise power. Liberalism is a poliical philosophy that emphasizes individual freedom as its key organizing value. The canadian legal system is the machinery that comprises and governs the legislaive, execuive, and judicial branches of government. The canadian consituion is not contained in one document, and rather, is located in a variety of places, legislaive and poliical, writen and unwriten. Consituional convenions are a code of ethics that governs our poliical processes .