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The Lawmakers : Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism /

The Canadian Constitution of 1867 as written should have provided the authoritative guide to the law governing the division of powers between the national and provincial governments of Canada, but by the 1940s the federal constitution was a very different document to that composed originally by John...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saywell, John T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Genesis of Sections 91 and 92, 1864-1867
  • 2. Made in Canada: The Provincial Courts, 1867-1881
  • 3. Made in Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada, 1875-1881
  • 4. The Appeal to Caesar
  • 5. Caesar Speaks, 1874-1888
  • 6. The Watson Era, 1889-1912
  • 7. Viscount Haldane, 1911-1928
  • 8. Lord Sankey and 'Progressive Constructionism', 1929-1935
  • 9. The New Deal at Court and the End of Appeals
  • 10. Restoring the Balance: The Supreme Court of Canada, 1949-1979
  • 11. Consolidation and Innovation 1980-2000
  • Afterword
  • Appendix
  • Index
  • Backmatter