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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ajzenstat, Janet, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
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