The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament

by Janet Ajzenstat

Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773532242
• ISBN13: 9780773532243
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"