Introduction A constitution provides the fundamental rules and principles that govern a country. It creates many of the institutions and branches of government, and defines their powers. The Canadian constitution is the basis on which Canada was founded on. It is the pillars upon which Canada’s government was built on, as it specifies what our government can and cannot do. Furthermore, the constitution was written to ensure the rights of Canadians are not violated. The Canadian Constitution is the one document which should be read by all Canadians, as it applies to all Canadians and plays the single most significant role in our lives.
The Canadian constitution as a blueprint for Canada’s government
The Canadian Constitution is the blueprint
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The Amending Formula protects the Constitution from being unjustly altered, this is done through Mr. Trudeau’s purposeful decision to make it nearly impossible to change the constitution. The steps required to amend the Canadian constitution include the approval of the Senate, then the approval of the House of Commons and the legislatures of at least seven of the ten provinces, if these provinces represent at least 50% of the population of Canada. This is also known as the 7/50 rule. Thus, the Amending Formula has been designed to ensure it will never be unjustly altered regardless of the regime it is under, attesting to the fact that the Amending Formula effectively provides legal stability, and …show more content…
Firstly, it contains the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees rights and freedoms that Canadians believe are necessary in a free and democratic society. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects Canadian’s fundamental freedoms, democratic rights, freedom of movement, legal rights, and equality and language rights. The protection of these rights allows Canadians to live their lives free of persecution, it allows all Canadians to live equally, and ensures our democratic values are not infringed on, something that can not be guaranteed in many countries around the world. Accordingly, it ensures we are able to speak without the fear of being convicted of treason, we are able to seek education without the fear of acid being thrown on our face, we are able to practice our religion without the fear of having our houses burned, and we are able to protest without the fear of being jailed. The importance of the Canadian Constitution is the protection it provides Canadians through the Charter of Rights and
The Constitution, written in May 1787 in Philadelphia, was a new constitution that replaced the Articles of Confederation which was not working at that time because it does not have a court system and the central government could not even force a state to pay taxes. 55 delegates from eleven states were called for a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to create a stronger government that can hold the new nation together. They were thinking to write a new constitution to guard against tyranny. Tyranny is defined as one individual who controls all the power which was the thing that the colonists were trying to avoid. The ways that the Constitution guarded against tyranny were by separation of powers, checks and balances, and the equality between large and small states.
Furthermore, Docherty (2002) suggests that the only province that appears to be fully committed to Senate reform is Alberta (the case 15 years ago anyway) while Most other provinces are quite happy to complain about the Senate but care little for reform [because] executive federalism has provided provincial premiers with a national stage that would be compromised with a powerful Senate. Inter-state federalism gives the Premier of Prince Edward Island, a province with fewer people than many Ontario cities, as much national authority as the Premier of Ontario. (Docherty 2002,
The constitution of the United States was a document created to fix the major problems the Confederation government had following its creation. The meetings in which the document was created founded the style of government that has lasted to this day. It created the Executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, it created our bill of rights, and it separated powers between the states and the newly formed federal government. Negotiations started as very difficult between the representatives of the separate states.
Without the Constitution, who knows what our country would’ve been. I know that nobody would even step foot into this country if things like tyranny were around spreading chaos all over. With different ways, including dividing powers between branches of government, Checks and Balances, and having Equal Representation from each state for the Legislative Branch, the Constitution can fulfill it’s purpose by maintaining our great country. More ways show a great deal of significance from Constitution, but these ways are very special because they show us a reminder of what was done for us to have no tyranny in our beloved country. The Constitution guarded against tyranny so that we can appreciate what our great founding fathers did so that we could
A constitution is in essence rules that creates a government. In general, every modern written constitution discusses explicit rules to a government entity based upon the fundamental stipulation that it accepts the assumed that it follows the legitimate guidelines. In the last century, there have been numerous influences of new constitutions. In the 90’s the most recent trend of new constitutions was seen. Countless countries imitated the United States constitution.
The 1960 Bill of Rights, by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was the previous attempt at introducing basic freedoms and protecting human rights to Canadians. Though the Bill of Rights had federal authority, it was not part of the Constitution and did not apply to provincial legislation. Trudeau’s plan was to include the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the Constitution in order to make it virtually unchangeable by future governments. The Charter would give the Supreme Court ultimate authority over interpreting the Constitution and its amendments. This was a concern for the provinces as it was another way they felt a loss of control.
It takes away the power from the monarchy, it protects the rights to a certain extent, it has taken out the racial views and it can always be changed. Before the constitution, the monarchy had all the power. The document created how the political parties would carry out the laws of the nation. The constitution is a well performing document that created how the law system works
The United States constitution was an article created within the Constitutional Convention as the purpose of fixing problems in the Confederation. This document gave the congress a larger amount of power, but still managed to keep the states independent. This factor was very important to the congress due to the prevention of a riot with the people. The Constitution also improved foreign recognition as the lack of support from states led to problems with foreign relations. The Bill of Rights was created due to the constitution also established Checks and balances so no chance of overruling was in sight.
If Canada abolishes it means that Canada won't have a place with "sober second thought.” This is why the senate still has some value and worth Canada to improve it to let it become better. The Senate has some benefits because it improves legislation. In the Constitution of Act in 1867, the constitution gives a
A constitution is unique to each country as it states the fundamental principles according to which a country or state is governed and considers most important. Most constitutions include principles of the state, fundamental rights of each individual that cannot be denied and the methodology of the government. The Canadian constitution was finalized in 1982 ending the BNA act and the Egyptian constitution of 2014 was modified from the constitution of 1971. Canada’s constitution prioritizes individual rights and freedoms and is evident in the 12 headings. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is integrated into Canada’s constitution and outlines the rights and freedoms regarding the individual.
The constitution is created in order to establish the framework for the new government. It is necessary for the new government to be able to protect property and promote commerce. The constitution is needed to prevent the issues that were under the Articles of Confederation. In addition to that the framers creating checks and balances in order to prevent the government from having too much democracy or too much governmental power from being a threat to the common good. As a result, the government needed to have the separation of powers principle.
The U.S. Constitution is what the Supreme Court uses to make the decision for a court case, it is like an instruction manual for the U.S., and it contains the rights of all
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution is the outline our founding fathers created to describe the nature and functions of government. Its first three articles consist of a doctrine of the separation of powers, which divides the federal government into three branches: the legislative, consisting of Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The constitution is meant to govern the federal government while the bill of rights is meant to govern the
It outlines a plan of government and provides the structure and functioning of the institutions of governments. Constitutions are expressions of popular sovereignty between the government and the governed. It specifies the powers and limitation of power of the government, as well as the right and privileges of citizens that cannot be affected by the government. Also it specified how citizens are allowed to participate in democratic decision making processes that determines public policies. In some ways, Texas Constitution executes these functions well.
In addition to the rights it already has, the Canadian Charter also has a number of certain group rights. These rights include linguistic and cultural rights for the French Canadian part of the Canadian populations in places of Quebec and New Brunswick, some other rights that are included as well are rights for aboriginal groups. The concept of rights in this group of rights doesn’t really have any recognition to US law where it got them from. Unlike The U.S constitution, the Canadian constitution gives most of the power to its Queen, which gives her more power of everything, while the U.S divides the power as to not give anyone too much authority over some things. While Canada does have a distribution of legislative power, it's not as much of a distribution like the U.S constitution has since Canada has a queen.