Viscount Haldane : "the wicked step-father of the Canadian constitution" /
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 Vi...
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
©2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.