Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs

by Joel Bakan

Book Overview

The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that fifteen years after the entrenchment of the Charter, social injustice remains pervasive in Canada?

Joel Bakan explains why the Charter has failed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802074804
• ISBN13: 9780802074805
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher