The Canadian founding : John Locke and parliament / Janet Ajzenstat.
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 parliament...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2007
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.