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Just Words : Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442676466
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just WordsLOC classification:
  • KE4381.5 .B353 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- Part I -- 2 Constitutional Interpretation and the Legitimacy of Judicial Review -- Part II -- 3 Equality and the Liberal Form of Rights -- 4 Freedom of Expression and the Politics of Communication -- 5 Freedom of Association and the Dissociation of Workers -- 6 Power to the Powerful -- Part III -- 7 Judges and Dominant Ideology -- Part IV -- 8 Rights as Political Discourse: The Charter Meets the Charlottetown Accord -- 9 What's Wrong with Social Rights? -- 10 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CASES CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- Part I -- 2 Constitutional Interpretation and the Legitimacy of Judicial Review -- Part II -- 3 Equality and the Liberal Form of Rights -- 4 Freedom of Expression and the Politics of Communication -- 5 Freedom of Association and the Dissociation of Workers -- 6 Power to the Powerful -- Part III -- 7 Judges and Dominant Ideology -- Part IV -- 8 Rights as Political Discourse: The Charter Meets the Charlottetown Accord -- 9 What's Wrong with Social Rights? -- 10 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CASES CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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