Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The evolving Canadian crown / edited by Jennifer Smith and D. Michael Jackson.

View full image

Institute of Intergovernmental Relations : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Monarchy -- Canada -- Congresses.

Constitutional history -- Canada -- Congresses.

Constitutional history -- Canada.

xii, 248 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ports. ; 23 cm.

Largely based on papers presented at the conference: The Crown in Canada : Present Realities and Future Options, held in Ottawa, Ont., from June 9-10, 2010.

Includes chapter abstracts in French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Jennifer Smith -- The Crown in the provinces : Canada's compound monarchy / D. Michael Jackson and Lynda M. Haverstock -- Myth and misunderstanding : the origins and meaning of the letters patent constituting the office of the Governor General, 1947 / Christopher McCreery -- The Crown and the constitution : sustaining democracy? / David E. Smith -- The constitutional role of the Governor General / Patrick J. Monahan -- The reserve powers of the Crown : The 2008 prorogation in hindsight / Andrew Heard -- Written reasons and codified conventions in matters of prorogation and dissolution / Robert E. Hawkins -- State ceremonial : the constitutional Monarch's liturgical authority / Paul Benoit -- Crown and Honours : Getting it Right / Christopher McCreery -- The honour of the first nations -the honour of the Crown : the unique relationship of First Nations with the Crown / David Arnot -- Crown in comparative perspective -- The Australian monarchy in the twenty-first century / Peter Boyce -- "The Crown down under": issues and trends in Australia and New Zealand / Noel Cox -- Reflections on the "Canadianization" of the Crown: a modest proposal / Jacques Monet -- Royal assent : a time for clarity / Hugh Segal -- The Crown and prime ministerial government or the slow withering of the monarchical institution / Serge Joyal.

Smith, Jennifer, 1950-

Jackson, D. Michael.

Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.

Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies.

Conference on the Crown in Canada (2010 : Ottawa, Ont.)

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal