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Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Ryan Alford

Current price: $40.95
Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Ryan Alford

Current price: $40.95
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For 150 years, Canada's constitutional order has been both flexible and durable, ensuring peace, order, and good government while protecting the absolute rights at the core of the rule of law. In this era of transnational terrorism and proliferating emergency powers, it is essential to revisit how and why our constitutional order developed particular limits on the government's powers, which remain in force despite war, rebellion, and insurrection. Seven Absolute Rights surveys the historical foundations of Canada's rule of law and the ways they reinforce the Constitution. Ryan Alford provides a gripping narrative of constitutional history, beginning with the medieval and early modern context of Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the constitutional settlement of the Glorious Revolution. His reconstruction ends with a detailed examination of two pre-Confederation crises: the rebellions of 1837–38 and the riots of 1849, which, as he demonstrates, provide the missing constitutionalist context to the framing of the British North America Act. Through this accessible exploration of key events and legal precedents, Alford offers a distinct perspective on the substantive principles of the rule of law embedded in Canada's Constitution. In bringing constitutional history to life, Seven Absolute Rights reveals the history and meaning of these long-forgotten protections and shows why they remain fundamental to our freedom in the twenty-first century. | Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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