What are the sources of Canadian law?
- American constitutional law only
- Decisions of the United Nations
- Laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures, English common law, the civil code of France and the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain
- Roman law and religious law
Answer: Laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures, English common law, the civil code of France and the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain
Canadian law comes from several sources: laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures, English common law, the civil code of France, and the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain. Together they secure a tradition of ordered liberty that dates back to Magna Carta in 1215.
Learn more: Where Canadian law comes from
- Sources of Canadian law: laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures, English common law, the civil code of France, and the unwritten constitution inherited from Great Britain.
- These sources secure an 800-year-old tradition of ordered liberty that dates back to Magna Carta (1215), also called the Great Charter of Freedoms.
- Habeas corpus, the right to challenge unlawful detention by the state, comes from English common law.
- The Quebec Act of 1774, passed by the British Parliament, restored French civil law in Quebec while keeping British criminal law.