The Constitution of Canada (Classic Reprint): An Introduction to Its Development and Law: An Introduction to Its Development and Law (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

W. P. M. Kennedy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330878507 ISBN 13: 9781330878507

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Constitution of Canada: An Introduction to Its Development and Law

In 1791, when Canada received representative institutions such as already existed in 'nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the gift was forced by the unforeseen advent of the American Loyalists; and while it. Conferred on french-canadians a primary education in political freedom, it withheld the fully developed scheme of responsible government. As a matter Of fact, the recognition Of what appears nowadays to be the necessary corollary Of representative government lay outside the range Of contemporary political thought. When responsible government in the modern sense Of the term came into practice in 1849, it was not before the colonial Office and the imperial government had spent many a bad quarter of an hour over a tantalizing problem Of sovereignty, and the Canadians had learned in the hard school of experience, in which rebellions played a part, something of the duties which are the spiritual values of legal forms or constitutional conventions. Indeed, in Canada legal form curtailed the growth of the constitutional convention of cabinet government. The fact that the Act Of Union Of 1840 gave to Canada East and to Canada West equal representation, irrespective of population, in the united legislature which that Act set up, robbed Lord Elgin's experi ment in 1849 of the full and complete implication of self government. With the coming of federation in 1867, Canada at last Obtained the widest application Of representative and responsible institutions.

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In 1922, The Times (of London, UK) called it "a work of great accuracy and conspicuous fairness"; the Observer, "alive, human, dramatic;" the Law Quarterly Review, "an admirable and most readable book;" and the New Statesman, "a book which will rank high in the literature of political science." In Canada the Canadian Historical Review wrote that it was "a theme worthy of a Macaulay." Saturday Night called it "brilliant ... a monumental work." In the United States, the Christian Science Monitor called it "masterly" and Harold Laski wrote in the New Republic: "To say that Dr. Kennedy has written a valuable book is to do him less than justice; he has written what is likely long to remain the standard introduction to the study of the Canadian constitution."

About the Author

W.P.M. Kennedy's career spanned some five decades at several academic institutions, but most notably the University of Toronto. He became the first Dean (and co-founder) of the University of Toronto Law School, as well as founder of the University of Toronto Law Journal. His career was colourful, distinguished, and varied, as detailed by Martin Friedland's introduction. Martin Friedland CC QC FRSC is a Canadian lawyer, academic, and author. He was awarded the Molson Prize in 1994. In 2003 he was awarded the Sir John William Dawson Medal, for important contributions of knowledge in multiple domains, by the Royal Society of Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330878507
• ISBN 13: 9781330878507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 541