Canadian Founding : John Locke and Parliament.
A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009).
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: CONFEDERATION
- 1 Making Parliament
- 2 Popular Sovereignty in the Confederation Debates
- 3 Human Rights in 1867
- 4 Civic Identity
- 5 The Political Nationality
- PART TWO : WHAT WENT BEFORE? WHAT I S HAPPENING NOW?
- 6 Celebrating 1791: Two Hundred Years of Representative Government
- 7 Canada's First Constitution: Pierre Bédard on Tolerance and Dissent
- 8 Modern Mixed Government: A Liberal Defence of Inequality
- 9 Collectivity and Individual Rights in "Mainstream Liberalism": John Arthur Roebuck and the Patriotes
- 10 Parliament and Today's Discontent
- Index
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