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Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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State

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Territorial boundaries

institutions that possess public authority

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Governments

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Must be part of the cabinet
Only a member of cabinet has the authority to decide where money can be spent

“govt back benchers” - members of a provincial legislature assembly who is not a party leader

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Legislatures

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People who are appointed to the senate

Bicameralism: 
Lower House (elected) 
Senate (appointed until 75 yrs old)
- Senate doesn't have the power to prevent legislations

Trudeau made a change - committee makes recommendations

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Courts

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Limits on what parliament can do, limits based on our constitution

  • govt cant pass anything that violates the constitution
  • Determined by the SCC
  • Supreme Court (Appointed, 9 spots) until 75 years old
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Police and Armed Forces

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Ensuring law and order

Doing what the gov’t tells them to do

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Monopoly on legitimate use of power

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Only state sanctioned violence is appropriate or justified

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Declining Participation

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IRPP Study: 
believe govt doesn't care
elected will soon loose touch
broken promises 
money buys influence
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Demos

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People

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Kratien

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To rule

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Athenian Model

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Political freedom
popular input
equality: no one had extra votes
Majority rule: What the majority wants will automatically pass

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Concerns about Democracy

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Technical difficulties
issue complexity (gay rights)
Citizen capacity (Ability and time) 
Citizen interest 
Tyranny of Majority
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Liberal: Fear of State

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Tyranny of the Majority

You don’t want the state to have full power over your life

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Liberal: Primacy of individual

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Group rights vs ind rights, Primary = individual

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Liberal: Freedom of individual

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values and rights that cannot be intruded on or restricted by the state

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Liberal: Equality of opportunity

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Everyone should have a basic opportunity, guaranteed level of education or opportunity to participate

should not be limiting

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Liberal: Competition

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Free market

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Liberal democracy

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Limited Government
Representative Government
Majority Rule

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Limited government

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Checks on state

  • freedom of expression
  • freedom of association
  • Tolerance of opposition (limit on what the govt can do)
  • Voting guarantees (political rights)
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Representative Government

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People do not perform govt roles directly

elected by universal vote

Recurring elections

Procedural Fairness

  • votes counted fairly
  • restrictions on how much money can be spent
20
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Referendum or Plebiscite

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Common in municipal politics

21
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Initiative

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Citizens do not have force to create a referendum

common in the U.S

22
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Recall

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Elect people to office, level of accountability if they want to stay in office, run again

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What happens when you do not like the elected?

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Sign a petition (6 months to acquire the signatures)

force a bi-election, can only be tried once

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Representation: Agency: Trustee

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Representative doing what is best for his or her Constituency

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Representation: Agency: Delegate

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Overwhelming majority Canadians prefer, elect them as their representative, try to do whatever you want me to do

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Representation: Agency: Party

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Elected to the legislature, and the way that I vote and act is fully consistent with that party takes

27
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Responsible government: Government

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Drawn from legislature:
Don’t get to be a part of the govt if you are not part of the legislature

Accountable to legislature:
The Right of the govt to remain in office is dependent on the votes of the legislature

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Pressures towards Union: Political restlessness

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Widen horizons

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Pressures towards Union: British Desire

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Wanted to unify, tired of paying our bills)

  • Cost of British govt of defending Canada
  • British preference for wider union
  • Colonial desire to give mother country what it wants
  • Wanted to improve relationship with Americans
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Pressures towards Union: Economic Decline/hope

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Cancellation of reciprocity treaty

allowed for free trade between the two countries, the Americans cancelled

31
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Pressures toward union: Pressures toward union

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American threat

  • Security threat
  • victorious union Army
32
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BNA (British North American Society)

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Sympathetic to confederacy

  • anything that weakens the US is good for the British
  • Breaking up the US into a couple pieces would improve
  • Relations troubled (Passports, fear of the US)
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Political Instability

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Union of Canada East & West not working (Ontario, and Quebec)

  • Not able to form lasting conflict (govt’s were rising and falling)
  • English and French conflict (seemed to inform every political debate)
  • Lord Durham’s solution
  • Anglo immigration
  • Equal Representation of smaller Ontario
  • English minority in Quebec combined w/Ontario to rule
  • French and English nation at war with each other and wanted to recommend steps for Canada to get away with that
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Internal Canadian Problems

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Behaviour of French speaking elite frustrated Durham Plan

  • United on all issues related to language
  • Support anglo groups most sympathetic
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Demographic changes

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  • Ontario grew larger than Quebec
  • Equal representation no longer seemed fair
  • Rep by pop (Based on pop size, Quebec pointed out that no one cared when Quebec is the more numerous group)
36
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Grand Coalition: Mandate

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Solve Canadian problem by negotiating wider union with Maritimes

  • Quebec rouges not in coalition
  • weaker group in Quebec
  • Goal is to create a wider Canadian state
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Charlottetown conference

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  • Intended to discuss maritime union
  • request to attend and start negotiations
  • Agree to what would become of the state of Canada (only in 4 days)
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Quebec Conference

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  • 17 days negotiation
  • pervasive sense of nationalism
  • Desperate for agreement
  • could not convince NFL and PEI
  • Agreement was between Ontario, Quebec, NS, NB,
  • Risk for Maritime/ Atlantic representatives
39
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Confederation Debates: Federal System

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Essentially non-negotiable = federal system or nothing

  • bottom line for Quebec and Maritimes
  • Reluctantly agreed to by MacDonald

Railway construction

40
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Confederation Debates: Senate

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More debate than other issues

- Core of agreement (equal representation of the regions)

41
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Confederation Debates: House of commons

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Rep by pop

42
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Confederation Debates: Financial Arrangements

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  • Feds take over debts of the existing colonies possessed

- Fed govt would provide annual grants based on pop

43
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Confederation Achieved

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NFL Rejects 
PEI Rejects (Financial arrangements not good enough, settlement of Land holding issues, patronizing attitude)
44
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Confederation Debate Canada: Pro

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-Safety from American Threat
-Solution to ungovernable Canadian situation
-economic advantages
Quebec members who supported it stressed the protection of French Language and culture by creation of provincial govt, that will be all powerful in these matters

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Confederation Debate Canada: Opposition

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Dorion and Rouges - Federal govt dominant, insufficient protection of French Language

Dunkin - govt misleading the debate

  • Senate a sham “pretty nonsensical”
  • Cabinet dominance inevitable
  • Local govt not sufficiently funded

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