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The myth of the sacred : the Charter, the courts, and the politics of the constitution in Canada / edited by Patrick James, Donald E. Abelson and Michael Lusztig.

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The myth of the sacred : the Charter, the courts, and the politics of the constitution in Canada / edited by Patrick James, Donald E. Abelson and Michael Lusztig.
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Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Abelson, Donald E.
  • James, Patrick, 1957-
  • Lusztig, Michael, 1962-
Description
xiii, 256 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Charter, the courts, and the politics of the constitution in Canada.
Subject
  • Canada
  • Political questions and judicial power > Canada
  • Civil rights > Canada
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the myth of sacred in the Canadian constitutional order / Patrick James, Donald E. Abelson, and Michael Lusztig -- Part 1. Judicial review and group status. Judicial rationalism and the therapeutic constitution : The Supreme Court's reconstruction of equality and democratic process under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Anthony A. Peacock ; Judicial supervision of the political process : Canadian and American responses to homosexual rights challenges / Mark E. Rush ; The Supreme Court of Canada and the complexity of judicial activism / James B. Kelly -- pt. 2. The Constitution and rational choice theory. Canada's three constitutions : protecting, overturning, and reversing the status quo / Tom Flanagan ; Strategic behaviour and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher P. Manfredi -- pt. 3. Non-governmental players in the Constitutional arena. Think tanks, public policy, and constitutional politics in Canada / Donald E. Abelson ; Cooperation and conflict : group activity in R. v. Keegstra / Shannon Ishiyama Smithey -- pt. 4. The culture of constitution-making in Canada. Deeper and deeper : deep diversity, federalism, and redistributive politics in Canada / Michael Lusztig ; Is a "true" multination federation the cure for our ills? / Hudson Meadwell.
ISBN
0773524347 (recycled alk. paper)
OCLC
  • 49304702
  • SCSB-10111103
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Harvard Library