POLS 2300 Chapter 7: Chapter 7

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2300
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Federalism is a legal term and its existence is based on the constitution livingston says: The essence of federalism lies not in the constitutional or institutional structure, but in the society itself. Is federalism a constitutional or sociological approach? it is constitutional because federalism is primarily a quality of societies, not constitutions, and few countries are not federal. Maintenance, and de ise of federal states:a federal state is based on a consensus of regions when regions no longer share national consensus, then separation becomes a possibilitypierre trudeau: federalism has all along been a product of reason in politics. There"s a unitary system of government which all power would be in the hands of a new national parliamentstrongest opposition is quebec. Maritimes actually preferred this constitutional option of federalism ontario and quebec were much less enthusiastic about federalism ottawa was more interested of national interests (trade, immigration, transportation they have a clear superiority over other provinces in economic matters.