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Calling Power to Account : Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax /
"Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetuated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants. Calling Power to Account uses the litigation around the Chinese C...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Calling Power to Account : |b Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax / |c edited by David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Toronto : |b University of Toronto Press, |c 2005. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2023 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2005. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (450 pages). | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Context and History""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation""; ""Litigating Injustice""; ""Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework""; ""Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?""; ""The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination""; ""Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice""; ""The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government"" | |
| 505 | 0 | |a ""Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs""""Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress""; ""Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice""; ""Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case""; ""The Juristic Force of Injustice""; ""Private Right and Public Wrong""; ""The Timing of Injustice""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment"" | |
| 505 | 0 | |a ""A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States""""Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law""; ""Appendix I: Appellants' Factum""; ""Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada � Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W"" | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetuated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants. Calling Power to Account uses the litigation around the Chinese Canadian head tax as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims." "Calling Power to Account suggest that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the head tax case."--Jacket. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Reparations for historical injustices. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01732564 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Race discrimination |x Law and legislation. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01086474 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Emigration and immigration law. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00908736 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese |x Legal status, laws, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00857196 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LAW |x Emigration & Immigration. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LAW |x Public. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LAW |x Constitutional. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Reparations des crimes de l'histoire |z Canada |v Congres. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Canadiens d'origine chinoise |x Relations avec l'État |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Canadiens d'origine chinoise |x Politique gouvernementale |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Canadiens d'origine chinoise |x Droits |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Canadiens d'origine chinoise |x Droit |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 5 | |a Chinese Canadians |x Government relations |x History. | |
| 650 | 5 | |a Chinese Canadians |x Government policy |x History. | |
| 650 | 5 | |a Chinese Canadians |x Civil rights |x History. | |
| 650 | 5 | |a Chinese Canadians |x Legal status, laws, etc. |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Emigration and immigration law |z Canada |x History |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Race discrimination |x Law and legislation |z Canada |x History |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese |x Taxation |x Law and legislation |z Canada |x History |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reparations for historical injustices |z Canada |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese |x Legal status, laws, etc. |x History |v Congresses. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Canada. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Canada |x Relations raciales. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Conference papers and proceedings. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01423772 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Moran, Mayo, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Dyzenhaus, David, |e editor. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
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