Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is an Amending Formula?
Amendments to the Constitution of Canada are changes to the Constitution of Canada initiated by the government. Only since 1982 has there been an official protocol to amend the Constitution.
What is a Bill?
A bill is a proposed law under consideration by a legislature
What is the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms?
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada
What are Civil Liberties?
the state of being subject only to laws established for the good of the community, especially with regard to freedom of action and speech.
What is the Executive Branch?
The executive branch operates, implements and enforces all the laws created by the legislative branch.
What is the Federal System?
The central goverment
What is a Government or Public Bill?
A public bill may be initiated by a Minister
What is Intra Vires?
within the legal power or authority or a person or official or body etc
What is Ultra Vires?
beyond one’s legal power or authority.
What is a Judiciary?
the judicial authorities of a country; judges collectively.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Parliament, the elected law-making branch of government, is made up of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the House of Commons and the Senate.
What are Lobby Groups?
Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems
What is Patriate mean?
transfer control over (a constitution) from a mother country to its former dependency.
What is the Principle of Equalization?
Equalization is the Government of Canada’s transfer program for addressing fiscal disparities among provinces
What is a Private Members Bill?
a legislative bill that is introduced by a private Member of Parliament and is not part of a government’s planned legislation
What is Residual Powers?
In comparative federalism and comparative constitutionalism reserved powers or residual powers are those powers which are not “enumerated
What are shared cost agreements?
an agreement to share the cost of something between two parties
What is the statute of Westminster?
The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and identical but separate versions of it are now domestic law within each of the other Commonwealth realms
What is the Unitary System?
A unitary state is a state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate. The great majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government. …
