Canadian Federalist System

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Overview
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Division of power
The nature of the Union “[is] a federal as distinguished from a legislative Union, but a Union composed of several pre-existing, continuing, and sovereign entities... [The Commonwealths are] not fractions of a unit but units of a multiple. The Union is the multiple and each Commonwealth is a unit of that multiple”. XXXX

Federal power
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Foreign and military affairs
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Interstate trade and the common market and customs area
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Copyrights and patents
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Naturalization and bankruptcy
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Money, and weights and standards
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Piracy, offenses against the law of nations, and counterfeiting
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Federal institutions
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General Government
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Legislature
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Executive
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Judicial
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Dual Federalism
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Commonwealth and pooled sovereignty
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Federal and inter-commonwealth treaties
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Commonwealth sovereign immunity
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Commonwealth immunity
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Federal elections
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