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UNINA9910816586403321 |
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Ajzenstat Janet <1936-> |
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Titolo |
The Canadian founding : John Locke and parliament / / Janet Ajzenstat |
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Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-8041-7 |
1-282-86640-0 |
9786612866401 |
0-7735-7593-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 electronic text (xvi, 199 pages) : digital file |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 44 |
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Soggetti |
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Representative government and representation - Canada - History |
National characteristics, Canadian |
Canada Politics and government |
Canada History Confederation, 1867 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Making parliament -- Popular sovereignty in the confederation debates -- Human rights in 1867 -- Civic identity -- A political nationality -- Celebrating 1791 : two hundred years of representative government -- Canada's first constitution : Pierre Bedard on tolerance and dissent -- Modern mixed government : a liberal defence of inequality -- Collectivity and individual rights in "mainstream liberalism" : John Arthur Roebuck and the patriotes -- Parliament and today's discontent. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments |
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