POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Cabinet Collective Responsibility, Visible Minority
6 Dec 2012
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Executive is the oldest branch of government. Modern history is one attempting to bind political executives to democratic impulses, as mediated by parliaments and to various refinements of the rule of law. In the british tradition, the evolution happened particularly slowly and peacefully for the most part, creating a wealth of precedent, convention and common law. Westminster model: model of representative and responsible government used in the uk and in other countries. Formal executive: consists of queen, gg and queen"s privy council for canada, possesses formal constitutional authority and by convention acts on the advice of the political executive. Informal refers to political executive, whose far reaching powers derive largely from custom and convention but also from political resources. Section 9 to 11 of the constitution act 1867, formal executive means vested in the. Queen remains canada"s formal head of state. Performs these duties on advice of the cabinet or the pm.
