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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442602458

Content: The Charter of Rights has transformed Canadian politics. The Supreme Court has used the Charter to change government policy on an ever-expanding list of controversial issues-abortion, aboriginal rights, gay rights, bilingualism, criminal law enforcement, and prisoner-voting. The Court has made itself the second most powerful institution in Canadian politics after the Federal Cabinet. Morton and Knopff demonstrate that the Court is not so much the cause as the means by which the Charter Revolution has been achieved. Behind the judges is a well orchestrated network of state-funded interest groups that use litigation and the media to achieve what they can't win through democratic elections.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- , One: Introduction -- , Two: Judges and the Charter Revolution -- , Three: The Court Party -- , Four: The State Connection -- , Five: The Jurocracy -- , Six: Power Knowledge: The Supreme Court as the Vanguard of the Intelligentsia -- , Seven: What's Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- , NOTES -- , LIST OF CASES CITED -- , SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442602458

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602458

UID:

Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442602458

Content: The Charter of Rights has transformed Canadian politics. The Supreme Court has used the Charter to change government policy on an ever-expanding list of controversial issues-abortion, aboriginal rights, gay rights, bilingualism, criminal law enforcement, and prisoner-voting. The Court has made itself the second most powerful institution in Canadian politics after the Federal Cabinet. Morton and Knopff demonstrate that the Court is not so much the cause as the means by which the Charter Revolution has been achieved. Behind the judges is a well orchestrated network of state-funded interest groups that use litigation and the media to achieve what they can't win through democratic elections.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- , One: Introduction -- , Two: Judges and the Charter Revolution -- , Three: The Court Party -- , Four: The State Connection -- , Five: The Jurocracy -- , Six: Power Knowledge: The Supreme Court as the Vanguard of the Intelligentsia -- , Seven: What's Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- , NOTES -- , LIST OF CASES CITED -- , SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442602458

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602458

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Format: 227 p. ; , 23 cm.

ISBN: 1-4426-0245-7

Content: ""Here finally is a book that unveils the politics that infuse Canadian courts and their decisions ... and warns us of the effects of a judicialized politics on our democratic traditions.""--Leslie A. Pal, Carleton University.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- , One: Introduction -- , Two: Judges and the Charter Revolution -- , Three: The Court Party -- , Four: The State Connection -- , Five: The Jurocracy -- , Six: Power Knowledge: The Supreme Court as the Vanguard of the Intelligentsia -- , Seven: What's Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- , NOTES -- , LIST OF CASES CITED -- , SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55111-089-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442602458

UID:

Format: 227 p. ; , 23 cm.

ISBN: 1-4426-0245-7

Content: ""Here finally is a book that unveils the politics that infuse Canadian courts and their decisions ... and warns us of the effects of a judicialized politics on our democratic traditions.""--Leslie A. Pal, Carleton University.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- , One: Introduction -- , Two: Judges and the Charter Revolution -- , Three: The Court Party -- , Four: The State Connection -- , Five: The Jurocracy -- , Six: Power Knowledge: The Supreme Court as the Vanguard of the Intelligentsia -- , Seven: What's Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- , NOTES -- , LIST OF CASES CITED -- , SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55111-089-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442602458