Canada's Founding Debates /
Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2003.
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Edición: | Paperback ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE: WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT LIBERTY
- 1 Constitutional Liberty
- 2 Responsible Government
- 3 Parliamentary Government and the Upper House
- 4 Equality of Representation
- PART TWO: WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT OPPORTUNITY
- 5 Economic Prosperity and Individual Ambition
- PART THREE: WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT IDENTITY
- 6 British or American?
- 7 British or Canadian?
- 8 What Is a Canadian?
- PART FOUR: WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE NEW NATIONALITY
- 9 Federal Union
- 10 Minorities and Minority Rights
- PART FIVE: HOW TO MAKE A CONSTITUTION11 Consulting the People in Constitution Making
- 12 Direct Democracy: Pro and Con
- Appendixes
- A: The Quebec Resolutions
- B: The Legislators
- C: Afterword on Books
- Picture Credits
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y