This collection uses Sir John A. Macdonald's records on the drafting of the Canadian constitution, augmented and complemented by a selection of letters, notes and memoranda, to provide a useful resource for students of Canadian history.
This collection uses Sir John A. Macdonald's records on the drafting of the Canadian constitution, augmented and complemented by a selection of letter...
This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government. The author criticizes previous accounts of the Judicial Committee's interpretative scheme for the British North American Act because of their neglect of underlying jurisprudential assumptions and their readiness to accept the textual criticisms levelled in the O'Connor Report of 1939; they fail to note the relationship between the jurisprudential and the textual aspects. Professor Browne is convinced that O'Connor's criticism is as ill...
This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian governm...