Power without Law ：The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism

Publication subTitle ：The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism

Author： Cameron   Alex M.  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9780773576674

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773535831

Subject： D90 theory of law (jurisprudence)

Keyword： 法律

Language： ENG

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Description

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense controversy.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Canadian Constitution

2 Judicial Activism and Its Critics

3 The Legal Background to Marshall (No. 1)

4 Marshall (No. 1) in the Trial Court

5 The Court of Appeal

6 The Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada: Marshall (No. 1)

7 Fire on the Water, and Marshall (No. 2)

8 Rewriting Nova Scotia History

9 Judicial Levitation: The Hovering Treaty Right

10 Trade, Treaties, and the Constitution

11 Fundamental Laws: The Rights of British Subjects and a “Promenade Down Barrington Street”

12 After the Marshall Decisions: Legal Uncertainty and Government Response

13 Stephen Marshall/Bernard

14 The Failure of Judicial Activism

Appendix: R. v. Marshall (No. 1)

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