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Contested Constitutionalism

Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

edited by James B. Kelly & Christopher P. Manfredi

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2010
Category
Constitutional
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774858892
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774816755
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774816748
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $95.00

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The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate, and the Charter remains the subject of controversy twenty-five years later. Contested Constitutionalism does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and political science of its effect on democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Employing a diversity of methodological approaches, contributors explore three themes: governance and institutions, policy making and the courts, and citizenship and identity politics. The influence of the Charter has been profound, they conclude, but has it been beneficial?

 

This thoughtful volume shifts the focus of debate from the Charter’s appropriateness to its impact – for better or worse – on political institutions, public policy, and conceptions of citizenship.

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Contributor Notes

James B. Kelly is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Christopher P. Manfredi is Dean of Arts and a professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University.

 

Contributors: Dennis Baker, Sujit Choudhry, Janet L. Hiebert, Grant Huscroft, Rainer Knopff, Graham Fraser, Matthew Hennigar, Kiera L. Ladner, Guy Laforest, Sylvia LeRoy, Antonia Maioni, Michael McCrossan, Andrew Petter, Troy Riddell, Kent Roach, Peter H. Russell