Chapter 5 Chapter Overview & Learning Objectives

Branches of Government

Chapter Overview

  • Learning Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Institutions of Government
  • The Executive
  • The Legislature
    • Legislative Structures
    • Legislative Functions
  • The Judiciary
    • Constitutionality Ruling
    • Judicial Legal Interpretation
    • Judicial Dispute Adjudication
  • The Bureaucracy
  • Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
  • Government in Canada
    • Canadian Federalism
    • Canadian Courts and the Constitution
    • The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Individual Citizens
    • Canadian Law
  • Conclusion
  • Self-Assessment Questions
  • Weblinks
  • Further Reading
  • Film and Video Clips

Learning Objectives

This chapter will help you to

  • identify the four main branches of government;
  • understand and explain the distinctive roles that each branch plays in democratic systems of government;
  • compare and contrast the American (presidential) and Canadian (parliamentary) systems of government; and
  • discuss the form and composition of the Canadian case.
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