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Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self-Government in Canada

By Bruce Clark

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780773562547
DOI
10.1515/9780773562547
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15648142 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies; 4
Pages
288\286
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 22:22:26

Description

It is generally assumed in Canada that native liberty and crown sovereignty are antagonistic and mutually exclusive forces. In this penetrating study, Bruce Clark shows that they are in fact complementary. The British government exercised its sovereignty in the eighteenth century in order to protect the liberty of the natives of Canada to continue governing themselves. Clark argues that this recognition continues to bind federal and provincial governments constitutionally, even though these governments habitually flout the law in practice.

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