POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Unanimous Consent, Unitary State, Canada Health Transfer

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

Document Summary

Federalism is a system of government divided between national government and some number of regional governments. Neither forms of government have the authority to alter the powers of the other government. Federalism is a property of constitutions not societies. However, there is no correlation between a country"s level of diversity and the likelihood of it having a federal constitution. Unitary government: sovereignty resides within the central governments, and all other government are subordinate to it. Federal government: sovereignty is divided between central and provincial governments. Confederal government: sovereignty is retained by the member state governments. Economic or military association: confederal type of government in which the functions assigned by the participating states to the common institutions are limited mainly to economic or military cooperation or coordination. The origins, maintenance, and demise of federal states. Political nationality: canadians have a reciprocal moral and legal claims upon one another that have no precise counterparts in their relations with other such that.