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1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages)) |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 44 |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 44
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| Contents |
Making parliament -- Popular sovereignty in the confederation debates -- Human rights in 1867 -- Civic identity -- A political nationality -- Celebrating 1791 : two hundred years of representative government -- Canada's first constitution : Pierre Bedard on tolerance and dissent -- Modern mixed government : a liberal defence of inequality -- Collectivity and individual rights in "mainstream liberalism" : John Arthur Roebuck and the patriotes -- Parliament and today's discontent |
| Summary |
Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009) |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 -- Influence
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast |
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Confederation of Canada (1867) fast |
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Representative government and representation -- Canada -- History
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National characteristics, Canadian.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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National characteristics, Canadian
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Politics and government
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Representative government and representation
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Canada -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019334
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Canada -- History -- Confederation, 1867.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019326
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007281632 |
| ISBN |
9780773575936 |
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0773575936 |
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0773580417 |
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9780773580411 |
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1282866400 |
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9781282866409 |
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9786612866401 |
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6612866403 |
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