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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453983203321

Titolo

Protecting Canadian democracy [[electronic resource] ] : the Senate you never knew / / edited by Serge Joyal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612861383

0-7735-7134-5

1-282-86138-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

JoyalSerge <1945->

Disciplina

328.71/071

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued also in French under title: Protéger la démocratie canadienne.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-350) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Bicameralism and Canada's Founders: The Origins of the Canadian Senate""; ""2 Forty Years of Not Reforming the Senate � Taking Stock""; ""3 Bicameralism in Federal Parliamentary Systems""; ""4 Senate Reform: Back to Basics""; ""5 Which Criticisms Are Founded?""; ""6 The Canadian Senate in Modern Times""; ""7 Comparing the Lawmaking Roles of the Senate and the House of Commons""; ""8 The Improvement of the Senate by Nonconstitutional Means""

""Conclusion: The Senate as the Embodiment of the Federal Principle""""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""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""