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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 Paperback - 2007
by Janet Ajzenstat
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- Title The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament Volume 44
- Author Janet Ajzenstat
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston
- Date June 2007
- ISBN 9780773532243 / 0773532242
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.5 in (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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