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Power Without Law : The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576674
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power Without LawDDC classification:
  • 342.71087209716
LOC classification:
  • KE229.M37 C36 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Canadian Constitution -- 2 Judicial Activism and Its Critics -- 3 The Legal Background to Marshall (No. 1) -- 4 Marshall (No. 1) in the Trial Court -- 5 The Court of Appeal -- 6 The Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada: Marshall (No. 1) -- 7 Fire on the Water, and Marshall (No. 2) -- 8 Rewriting Nova Scotia History -- 9 Judicial Levitation: The Hovering Treaty Right -- 10 Trade, Treaties, and the Constitution -- 11 Fundamental Laws: The Rights of British Subjects and a "Promenade Down Barrington Street" -- 12 After the Marshall Decisions: Legal Uncertainty and Government Response -- 13 Stephen Marshall/Bernard -- 14 The Failure of Judicial Activism -- Appendix: R. v. Marshall (No. 1) -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.
Summary: A close look at the momentous Marshall decision and how the Supreme Court got it wrong.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Canadian Constitution -- 2 Judicial Activism and Its Critics -- 3 The Legal Background to Marshall (No. 1) -- 4 Marshall (No. 1) in the Trial Court -- 5 The Court of Appeal -- 6 The Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada: Marshall (No. 1) -- 7 Fire on the Water, and Marshall (No. 2) -- 8 Rewriting Nova Scotia History -- 9 Judicial Levitation: The Hovering Treaty Right -- 10 Trade, Treaties, and the Constitution -- 11 Fundamental Laws: The Rights of British Subjects and a "Promenade Down Barrington Street" -- 12 After the Marshall Decisions: Legal Uncertainty and Government Response -- 13 Stephen Marshall/Bernard -- 14 The Failure of Judicial Activism -- Appendix: R. v. Marshall (No. 1) -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.

A close look at the momentous Marshall decision and how the Supreme Court got it wrong.

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