Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework - Hardcover
Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. Contributors from across Canada include historians, lawyers, political scientists, and politicians writing on themes that illustrate how Alberta's constitution is the product of decades, even centuries, of contest, debate, division, and negotiation.
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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. The editors, Richard Connor and John M. Law, and the contributors analyze the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson's Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. Many of the contributors offer particular insights into specific aspects of Alberta's historical experiences and cast light upon issues of national and even international importance. They share the goal of revealing the plethora of social, political, economic and cultural influences on the development of the province. Papers include Richard Connors on British law in Rupert's Land; Desmond Brown on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west; Edmund A. Aunger on French language rights; Sandra M. Anderson on the separate schools issue; Catherine Cavanaugh on the Person's Case; Thomas Flanagan and Mark Milke on the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement; Dale Gibson on the long-term impact of Alberta's social credit political revolution; Fred V. Martin on the Alberta Métis Settlements Act; Rod Macleod and Nancy Parker on the role of Justices of the Peace; Kenneth Munro on the office of the Lieutenant-Governor; Robert Irwin on Indigenous peoples' hunting and fishing rights; Douglas Owram on the National Energy Program; Preston Manning on Federal-Provincial relations; Michael Behiels on Premier Lougheed's role in Constitutional reform; Lois Harder on equality and women's political identity; and Allan Tupper on Alberta's uncertain future.
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Richard Connors is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. John Law is Professor of Law at the University of Alberta.
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- PublisherUniversity of Alberta Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0888644574
- ISBN 13 9780888644572
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages576
- EditorConnors Richard, Law John M.
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Type: Book This book analyses the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson's Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta's constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta's legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.N.B.Rear d/j cover slightly marked. Seller Inventory # 017788
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