Viscount Haldane: 'The Wicked Step-Father of the Canadian Constitution'

by Frederick Vaughan

Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely influential in altering the constitutional relations between the federal parliament and the provincial legislatures. Chafing under the British North America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442642378
• ISBN13: 9781442642379
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher