Writing a national identity : political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written constitution / edited by Vivien Hart and Shannon C. Stimson

Bib ID:
1385790
Format:
Book
Description:
  • Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993
  • x, 245 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
0719035899 (hardback)
Series:
Fulbright papers ; v. 11.
Full contents:
  • Foreword / John E. Franklin
  • Introduction / Vivien Hart and Shannon C. Stimson
  • 1. The US Constitution and the textuality of American culture / Wayne Franklin
  • 2. Constitution and imagination: the myth of reason - the reason of myth / Emory Elliott
  • 3. Constitutional discourse: a commentary / Stephen Fender
  • 4. Written constitutions and social rights / David P. Currie
  • 5. Written constitutions and negative rights: some comments on Professor Currie / Christopher McCrudden
  • 6. 'The most willful blindness': the Supreme Court and social facts / H. N. Hirsch
  • 7. Spousal equality and the law: beyond an 'equal rights' approach / Mary Lyndon Shanley
  • 8. The right to a fair wage; American experience and the European Social Charter / Vivien Hart
  • 9. Social rights, social facts, and the written constitution: American reflections / Cheryl B. Welch
  • 10. Social rights, social facts, and the written constitution: European reflections / Elizabeth Meehan.
  • 11. Reflections on the economic interpretation of the Constitution / Shannon C. Stimson
  • 12. The constitution of a monetary authority for Europe / Murray Milgate
  • 13. Constitution and national identity in contemporary Canada: a historian's view / Ged Martin
  • 14. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: an instrument for change / Gilles Letourneau and Yves Demontigny
  • 15. Constitution-making in Canada: writing a national identity or preparing for national disintegration? / Robert C. Vipond
  • Appendix: Participants in the Fulbright Colloquium, Sussex, 1991.
Notes:
  • Papers from a colloquium held at the University of Sussex in April 1991.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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