Toward the Charter : Canadians and the demand for a national bill of rights, 1929-1960 /
"Toward the Charter looks at the evolution of human rights in Canada through Canadian efforts to entrench a bill of rights in the constitution. The important roles played by parliamentarians such as John Diefenbaker and academics such as F.R. Scott are placed alongside those of trade unionists,...
| Основен автор: | Maclennan, Christopher, 1968- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Montreal ; Ithaca [New York] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
℗♭2003.
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Print version::
Toward the Charter. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : a "Canadian" Bill of Rights
- Civil liberties and civil libertarians from the Depression to World War II, 1929-42
- A change in strategy : the first demands for a national Bill of Rights, 1943-47
- Canada and the United Nations International Bill of Rights
- Expansion and contraction : the frustration of the Bill of Rights movement, 1948-52
- The decade of human rights and the Bill of Rights movement
- Success of a sort : the Diefenbaker Bill of Rights
- "A mere scrap of paper"?