conventions
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What Sort of Rules Are in a Constitution?
A very interesting post about constitutionalism by C.J. Peters on his new MODblog makes a couple of claims that is worth addressing at some length. Constitutional law, prof. Peters suggests, consists of “legal rules that are both entrenched and secondary” (his emphasis). “Secondary” rules refers to H.L.A. Hart’s category for rules that, unlike “primary” rules which impose duties to Continue reading
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À quoi sert le lieutenant-gouverneur?
Le Globe and Mail a publié une chronique intéressante de Carolyn Harris, une historienne (et auteure d’un blogue sur l’histoire de la monarchie), réagissanat aux récents propos de Pauline Marois concernant la monarchie canadienne et, plus spécifiquement, l'(in)utilité du lieutenant-gouverneur dans la structure constitutionnelle québécoise. Selon ce que rapporte Mme Harris, Mme Marois aurait affirmé Continue reading
Double Aspect 