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Constitution of Canada: Key Charter
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The entrenchment of property rights in the Constitution appears to have been the policy of the former Liberal government since 1968. In that year, as Minister of Justice, Pierre Trudeau proposed the passage of a charter that would give constitutional protection to certain rights, including the "enjoyment of property." In 1969, as Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau again proposed entrenchment of a charter of rights which would have guaranteed the right of an individual to use and enjoy property, with the assurance that there would be no deprivation of property except in accordance with proper legal procedures.
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Since 1982 the Charter has become an often cited portion of the Constitution. The predecessor acts and orders that are listed below are generally not as well known. These acts have sometimes been denounced as "messy," "almost incoherent" or worse for their somewhat convoluted form and long, unconsolidated history. However, they remain the laws that determine the division of powers between federal and provincial jurisdictions, the terms upon which new provinces entered Canada and the division between executive, legislative and judicial areas of power in a manner very different from the United States.
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Constitutions play an important part in every political system, because they provide the basis for the orderly resolution of disputes. The basic powers and framework of the key political institutions and actors are found in a constitution.
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