Myth of the Sacred: The Charter, the Court, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada: The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0773524355 ISBN 13: 9780773524354

Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 2003

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At its core this myth embodies the Trudeauian ideal of Canadian society - one that features a constitution that empowers impartial judges at the expense of politically motivated legislators; one that allows each individual to enjoy a uniform range of rights, freedoms, and means of belonging to the larger Canadian society; and one that seeks to ensure the primacy of the national government rather than the provincial. Trudeau called his vision the Just Society. But justice is an illusive and amorphous concept. Defining it, much less institutionalizing it, is fraught with risk. In modern liberal democracies, justice is typically understood as the product of some mix of liberty and equality, process and substance, with the amount of each component varying according to taste. It is not unusual for political actors to seek to institutionalize their own formulas for justice, but it is also not reasonable to expect these formulas to go unchallenged. Such a challenge represents the dominant theme of this volume. Contributors include Donald E. Abelson, Tom Flanagan (University of Calgary), Patrick James, James B. Kelly (Brock University), Michael Lusztig, Christopher P. Manfredi (McGill University), Hudson Meadwell (McGill University), Anthony A. Peacock (Utah State University), Mark Rush (Washington and Lee University), and Shannon I. Smithey (Kent State University).

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• Editore: McGill Queens Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0773524355
• ISBN 13: 9780773524354
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: James Patrick, Abelson Donald E., Lusztig Michael