Viscount Haldane : "the wicked step-father of the Canadian constitution" / Frederick Vaughan.
2010
KD632.H35 V38 2010 (Mapit)
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Viscount Haldane : "the wicked step-father of the Canadian constitution" / Frederick Vaughan.
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Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Description
xix, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Göttingen, 1874
Home and school for the mind
The University of Edinburgh and the seeds of German philosophy
The practice of law and life in parliament
From the inns of court to the War Office
Haldane in the school of the master
Haldane in the shadow of Lord Watson
Haldane and the reign of Sittlichkeit
In the high court of Hegel
The state and the reign of relativity
Supreme tribunal of the empire
Recollections and last days
Postscript : the Haldane legacy and the modern court.
Home and school for the mind
The University of Edinburgh and the seeds of German philosophy
The practice of law and life in parliament
From the inns of court to the War Office
Haldane in the school of the master
Haldane in the shadow of Lord Watson
Haldane and the reign of Sittlichkeit
In the high court of Hegel
The state and the reign of relativity
Supreme tribunal of the empire
Recollections and last days
Postscript : the Haldane legacy and the modern court.
Summary
"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 Act of 1867, which provided for a strong central government, the provincial governments appealed to the Judicial Committee and were successful in gaining greater provincial legislative autonomy through the constitutional interpretations of the law lords. In Viscount Haldane, Frederick Vaughan concentrates on Haldane's role in these rulings, arguing that his jurisprudence was shaped by his formal study of German philosophy, especially that of G.W.F. Hegel. Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."--BOOK JACKET.
Chafing under the British North America Act of 1867, which provided for a strong central government, the provincial governments appealed to the Judicial Committee and were successful in gaining greater provincial legislative autonomy through the constitutional interpretations of the law lords. In Viscount Haldane, Frederick Vaughan concentrates on Haldane's role in these rulings, arguing that his jurisprudence was shaped by his formal study of German philosophy, especially that of G.W.F. Hegel. Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KD632.H35 V38 2010
Language
English
ISBN
9781442642379
1442642378
1442642378
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