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Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; appears unread; 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. 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. she 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 be equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British…
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The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament Volume 44 Tapa blanda - 2007
de Janet Ajzenstat
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- Título The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament Volume 44
- Autor Janet Ajzenstat
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First
- Páginas 216
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston
- Fecha de publicación June 2007
- ISBN 9780773532243 / 0773532242
- Peso 0.69 libras (0.31 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.5 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Canada - Politics and government, Canada - Politique et gouvernement
- Dewey Decimal Code 328.710
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The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament
de Ajzenstat, Janet
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- near fine
- Tapa blanda
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780773532243 / 0773532242
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