The Durham Report and British Policy
The Durham Report and British Policy

Author: Ged Martin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1972-11-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780521085304

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In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.

Political Thought of Lord Durham
Political Thought of Lord Durham

Author: Janet Ajzenstat

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780773506374

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Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text in modern political thought. She develops Durham's underlying arguments and assumptions, demonstrating the essentially liberal character of his recommendations and revealing a tough-minded argument about political freedom and the place of national minorities in a free society.

Property Rights and Bijuralism
Property Rights and Bijuralism

Author: Jan Jakob Bornheim

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 3161591682

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"Using the Canadian experience as a model, Jan Jakob Bornheim shows that the efficient interaction of common law and civil law can take place on both vertical and horizontal planes."--

Canadian Founding
Canadian Founding

Author: Janet Ajzenstat

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0773575936

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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 Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.