The Canadian Constitution in Transition /

The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach. Featuring essays from both emerging and established...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Albert, Richard (Autor, Contribuidor), Daly, Paul (Autor, Contribuidor), MacDonnell, Vanessa (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Arbel, Efrat (Contribuidor), Karazivan, Noura (Contribuidor), Kaushal, Asha (Contribuidor), Kidd White, Emily (Contribuidor), Kislowicz, Howard (Contribuidor), Liston, Mary (Contribuidor), MacFarlane, Emmett (Contribuidor), Milward, David (Contribuidor), Myrdahl, Eileen (Contribuidor), Narain, Vrinda (Contribuidor), Newman, Dwight (Contribuidor), Pal, Michael (Contribuidor), Wright, Wade K. (Contribuidor), Xavier, Sujith (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Temas:
Constitutional law > Canada.
LAW / General.
Canada 150.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Confederation.
Constitution Act 1867.
Constitution Act 1982.
Constitution of Canada.
Federalism.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Canadian Constitution in Transition
  • Introduction: The Constitution of Canada in a New Key
  • 1 The Most Opaque Branch? The (Un)accountable Growth of Executive Power in Modern Canadian Government
  • 2 The Future of Constitutional Change in Canada: Examining Our Legal, Political, and Jurisprudential Straitjacket
  • 3 Section 96: Striking a Balance between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism
  • 4 Canada's "Constitution outside the Courts": Provincial Non-enforcement of Constitutionally Suspect Federal Criminal Laws as Case Study
  • 5 Cooperative Federalism in Canada and Quebec's Changing Attitudes
  • 6 Religious and Political Communities in the Canadian Judicial Imagination: Two Tensions, Two Questions
  • 7 Collective Diversity and Jurisdictional Accommodations in Constitutional Perspective
  • 8 Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation
  • 9 Freeing Inherent Aboriginal Rights from the Past
  • 10 False Western Universalism in Constitutionalism? The 1867 Canadian Constitution and the Legacy of the Residential Schools
  • 11 The Unstable Scope of Constitutionalized Property Rights in Canada: Public, Indigenous, and Private
  • 12 A Role for Human Dignity under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • 13 Is the Permanent Campaign the End of the Egalitarian Model for Elections?
  • 14 Immutability, Immigration Status, and the Limits of Equality Protection
  • Contributors
  • Index of Cases and Statutes
  • Index of Names
  • General Index

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