Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xiii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xxi
5. ROADS TO CONFEDERATION The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 1
6. I Introduction: The Study of Confederation 3
7. II Other Voices, Other Stories
8. A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations 59
9. “Displacement and Assimilation” Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 83
10. “Gender and the Confederation Debates” 92
11. “French Canada and Confederation: The Acadians of New Brunswick” 99
12. III Ideas of Confederation
13. Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? 115
14. Reference re. Secession of Quebec Supreme Court of Canada1 138
15. The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament 145
16. Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760–1896 164
17. “Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment” 203
18. “1787 and 1867: The Federal Principle and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered” 221
19. IV One New Nation, Two Founding Nations or a Compact of Provinces?
20. “Conservatism and National Unity” 251
21. “The Genesis of Provincial Rights” 268
22. “Confederation: A Pact or a Law?” 284
23. “Nature of Confederation” Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (Tremblay Report) 312
24. “Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present” 329
25. The Invention of a Myth: The Pact between Two Founding Peoples 344
26. Copyright Permissions 361
27. Contributors 365