Toward the Charter : Canadians and the demand for a national bill of rights, 1929-1960 / Christopher MacLennan.
2003
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Title
Toward the Charter : Canadians and the demand for a national bill of rights, 1929-1960 / Christopher MacLennan.
Published
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
JC599.C2 M33 2003
ISBN
0773525327
Description
xii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51446201
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-229) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: A "Canadian" Bill of Rights
3
1
Civil Liberties and Civil Libertarians from the Depression to World War II, 1929-42
12
2
A Change in Strategy: The First Demands or a National Bill of Rights, 1943-47
33
3
Canada and the United Nationss International Bill of Rights
60
4
Expansion and Contraction: The Frustration of the Bill of Rights Movement, 1948-52
83
5
The Decade of Human Rights and the Bill of Rights Movement
109
6
Success of a Sort: The Diefenbaker Bill of Rights
126
7
"A Mere Scrap of Paper"?
151
App. 1
An Act to Amend the British North American Act, 1867, drafted by the Committee for a Bill of Rights, 1947-48
163
App. 2
Canadian Membership on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and Its Commissions, 1945-60
165
App. 3
Arthur Roebuck's Canadian Bill of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 3 November 1949
166
App. 4
An Act for the Protection of Civil Rights, prepared by the Department of Justice, 1947 (Revised 1951-52)
170
App. 5
An Act for the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Bill C-60, 5 September 1958
172
App. 6
An Act for the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundmental Freedoms, 1960
175
Notes
179
Bibliography
213
Index
231