LEADER 03721nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910816586403321 005 20230912223119.0 010 $a0-7735-8041-7 010 $a1-282-86640-0 010 $a9786612866401 010 $a0-7735-7593-6 024 7 $a2027/heb33474 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478079 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300021 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478079 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10418968 035 $a(PQKB)11056085 035 $a(CEL)432817 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00225518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3271066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332020 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332020 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10558969 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286640 035 $a(OCoLC)923233811 035 $a(dli)HEB33474 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000883 035 $a(DE-B1597)654477 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773575936 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079067 100 $a20071121h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Canadian founding $eJohn Locke and parliament /$fJanet Ajzenstat 210 1$aMontreal :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2007. 210 4$aŠ2007 215 $a1 electronic text (xvi, 199 pages) $cdigital file 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;$v44 311 0 $a0-7735-3224-2 311 0 $a0-7735-3152-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMaking 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. 330 $aConvinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;$v44. 517 3 $aJohn Locke and parliament 606 $aRepresentative government and representation$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, Canadian 607 $aCanada$xPolitics and government 607 $aCanada$xHistory$yConfederation, 1867 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Canadian. 676 $a320.471 700 $aAjzenstat$b Janet$f1936-$0835463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816586403321 996 $aThe Canadian founding$94047175 997 $aUNINA