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Canadian Federalist Experiment: From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780773571013
DOI
10.1515/9780773571013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2413259 bytes)
Pages
232\238
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 22:24:46

Description

In The Canadian Federalist Experiment Frederick Vaughan details how the fathers of Confederation, defiantly determined to perpetuate monarchical government despite Enlightenment philosophy that insisted that republicanism was the only legitimate form of government, embraced the Hobbesean principles of the English constitution and embedded them in the new Canadian constitution in 1867, leading to concentration of power in the office of the prime minister.

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