Author: John Helis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552214947
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This work provides a much-needed overview of quasi-constitutional laws of Canada. These laws comprise several categories of federal and provincial statutes, including human rights, access-to-information, privacy, language rights, and the traditional civil liberties, as well as a common law principle.
Quasi-constitutional Laws of Canada
Author: John Helis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552214947
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This work provides a much-needed overview of quasi-constitutional laws of Canada. These laws comprise several categories of federal and provincial statutes, including human rights, access-to-information, privacy, language rights, and the traditional civil liberties, as well as a common law principle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552214947
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This work provides a much-needed overview of quasi-constitutional laws of Canada. These laws comprise several categories of federal and provincial statutes, including human rights, access-to-information, privacy, language rights, and the traditional civil liberties, as well as a common law principle.
Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351201816
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from national and transnational perspectives, expanding on its many forms, functions, and applications with recourse to comparative insights. The book is divided in three main Parts, each of them preceded by a separate critical introduction in which an informed scholar contextualizes the chapters and offers reflections on the themes they develop. The first Part, titled 'Forms', is composed of chapters that address, from a theoretical and comparative perspective, questions related to the recognition of constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutional legislation. The second Part is titled 'Functions', and contains chapters that explore the explanatory power of quasi-constitutionality in different institutional contexts. The third Part, titled 'Applications', considers the ways in which constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutionality operate in relation to particular tensions and debates present in various jurisdictions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351201816
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from national and transnational perspectives, expanding on its many forms, functions, and applications with recourse to comparative insights. The book is divided in three main Parts, each of them preceded by a separate critical introduction in which an informed scholar contextualizes the chapters and offers reflections on the themes they develop. The first Part, titled 'Forms', is composed of chapters that address, from a theoretical and comparative perspective, questions related to the recognition of constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutional legislation. The second Part is titled 'Functions', and contains chapters that explore the explanatory power of quasi-constitutionality in different institutional contexts. The third Part, titled 'Applications', considers the ways in which constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutionality operate in relation to particular tensions and debates present in various jurisdictions.
Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
Author: Bruce P. Frohnen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968921
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Americans are increasingly ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other forms of quasi-law that lack the predictability and consistency essential for the legal system to function properly. As a result, the U.S. Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern, and the government no longer acts according to the rule of law. These developments can be traced back to a change in “constitutional morality,” Bruce Frohnen and George Carey argue in this challenging book. The principle of separation of powers among co-equal branches of government formed the cornerstone of America’s original constitutional morality. But toward the end of the nineteenth century, Progressives began to attack this bedrock principle, believing that it impeded government from “doing the people’s business.” The regime of mixed powers, delegation, and expansive legal interpretation they instituted rejected the ideals of limited government that had given birth to the Constitution. Instead, Progressives promoted a governmental model rooted in French revolutionary claims. They replaced a Constitution designed to mediate among society’s different geographic and socioeconomic groups with a body of quasi-laws commanding the democratic reformation of society. Pursuit of this Progressive vision has become ingrained in American legal and political culture—at the cost, according to Frohnen and Carey, of the constitutional safeguards that preserve the rule of law.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968921
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Americans are increasingly ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other forms of quasi-law that lack the predictability and consistency essential for the legal system to function properly. As a result, the U.S. Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern, and the government no longer acts according to the rule of law. These developments can be traced back to a change in “constitutional morality,” Bruce Frohnen and George Carey argue in this challenging book. The principle of separation of powers among co-equal branches of government formed the cornerstone of America’s original constitutional morality. But toward the end of the nineteenth century, Progressives began to attack this bedrock principle, believing that it impeded government from “doing the people’s business.” The regime of mixed powers, delegation, and expansive legal interpretation they instituted rejected the ideals of limited government that had given birth to the Constitution. Instead, Progressives promoted a governmental model rooted in French revolutionary claims. They replaced a Constitution designed to mediate among society’s different geographic and socioeconomic groups with a body of quasi-laws commanding the democratic reformation of society. Pursuit of this Progressive vision has become ingrained in American legal and political culture—at the cost, according to Frohnen and Carey, of the constitutional safeguards that preserve the rule of law.
Constitutional Dialogue
Author: Geoffrey Sigalet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417582
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Identifies how and why 'dialogue' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417582
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Identifies how and why 'dialogue' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.
Just Words
Author: Joel Bakan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 080200461X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 080200461X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World
Author: Paul Daly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896911
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896911
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy.
Apex Courts and the Common Law
Author: Paul Daly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504438
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual cases, common law courts settle litigation and move the law in new directions. By virtue of their place at the top of the judicial hierarchy, courts at the apex of common law systems are unique in that their decisions and, in particular, the language used in those decisions, resonate through the legal system. Although both the common law and apex courts have been studied extensively, scholars have paid less attention to the relationship between the two. By analyzing apex courts and the common law from multiple angles, this book offers an entry point for scholars in disciplines related to law - such as political science, history, and sociology - who are seeking a deeper understanding and new insights as to how the common law applies to and is relevant within their own disciplines.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504438
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual cases, common law courts settle litigation and move the law in new directions. By virtue of their place at the top of the judicial hierarchy, courts at the apex of common law systems are unique in that their decisions and, in particular, the language used in those decisions, resonate through the legal system. Although both the common law and apex courts have been studied extensively, scholars have paid less attention to the relationship between the two. By analyzing apex courts and the common law from multiple angles, this book offers an entry point for scholars in disciplines related to law - such as political science, history, and sociology - who are seeking a deeper understanding and new insights as to how the common law applies to and is relevant within their own disciplines.
Making Equality Rights Real
Author: Fay Faraday
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552211182
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Equality is a hotly contested Charter right and a bedrock Canadian value. This book assesses equality jurisprudence from many angles. Each of the 13 papers in this collection aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of inequality and oppression, thereby enriching the legal framework for eradicating and promoting substantive equality.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552211182
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Equality is a hotly contested Charter right and a bedrock Canadian value. This book assesses equality jurisprudence from many angles. Each of the 13 papers in this collection aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of inequality and oppression, thereby enriching the legal framework for eradicating and promoting substantive equality.
SUPREME COURT LAW REVIEW.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780433533719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780433533719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fundamental Justice 2/e
Author: Hamish Stewart
Publisher: Essentials of Canadian Law
ISBN: 9781552215012
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Section 7 of the Charter of Rights provides "the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." This book analyzes all aspects of section 7. The second edition has been extensively revised to explore significant changes in the law.
Publisher: Essentials of Canadian Law
ISBN: 9781552215012
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Section 7 of the Charter of Rights provides "the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." This book analyzes all aspects of section 7. The second edition has been extensively revised to explore significant changes in the law.