LE3 .A278 1997

1997

Pyrcz, Greg

Acadia University

Master of Arts

Masters

Political Science

Politics

Sovereignty is a concept well suited to addressing the nature of legislative authority. In this thesis I argue that contemporary proposals for constitutional reform in Canada poorly comprehend the nature of legislative authority. The marriage of the parliamentary form of government to the federal principle makes the determination of legislative authority problematic, at least in part, because it fails to develop an adequate conceptualization of sovereignty. Instead, legislative authority is described in terms of the division of powers between two orders of equal and co-ordinate government, each possessing legislative autonomy as established by the constitution. This description presumes the resolution of the issue of the source of legislative authority in the Canadian political community to the detriment of constitutional resolution.

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