Marx Flashcards
Marx?
Ownership of means of production, alienated labour, private property and ideology as mystification
1848 (a spectre haunting Europe)?
Political agitation sparked by inequality, harshness of industrialization, power of economic elite
Absolute power is checked only by?
Power of constitution
The three spheres of government?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Montesquieu?
When legislative and executive powers unite there is no liberty
Section 33?
Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature
Section 3?
Right to vote
Section 4?
Maximum term of all legislatures in Canada at 5 years
Section 5?
Legislatures must meet once every 12 months
Which government power is rising?
Executive, especially in national security context
When is rule of law broken?
During emergency, but exceptions may become rule
Agamben?
Emergency becomes rule, and distinction between war and peace becomes impossible
Labour theory of value?
Surplus produced only through labour so capitalist profit is expropriation, violence
Habeas corpus?
For state to obtain a body, they must show it to a court
State of emergency?
Exec branch can suspend regular democratic rights/procedures