Janet Ajzenstat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Ajzenstat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ajzenstat |
| SIGNATURE | AJZENSTAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Documents on the Confederation of British North America: A Compilation Based on Sir Joseph Pope S Confederation Documents Supplemented by Other Official Material
This edition retains Browne's original introduction with its lucid exposition of events from 1858 to 1867. A new introduction by Janet Ajzenstat draws attention to the debt British North Americans owe to the political tradition of British liberalism
The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament
A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)
Lord Durham’s Report: An Abridgement of Report on the Affairs of British North America by lord durham
In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presum…
Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada
A proposal for renewed political dialogue in Canada that would attempt to realise the common good by giving significant place to conversation as a means of reconciling our conflicts
Once and Future Canadian Democracy: An Essay in Political Thought
In The Once and Future Canadian Democracy Janet Ajzenstat debunks conventional wisdom about Canadian political identity and history. She shows that linking Canadian identity to an ideology that favours the common good over individual interests and counts on big government to achieve it is strangling Canadian democracy by placing fundamental questions beyond debate.
Canada's Founding Debates
Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation - about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from Newfoundland to British Columbia and in the constituent assembly of the Red River Colony. The voices of the powerful and those of lesser note mingle in …
Two Forms of Democracy: A Response to Mendelsohn's “PublicBrokerage: Constitutional Reform and the Accommodation of Mass Publics”
Underlying Matthew Mendelsohn's plea for popular participation in constitution making is a tradition of democratic thought that Jennifer Smith calls “anti–partyism.” This is not the place to describe types of anti–partyism, or trace its roots in Rousseau; I will say only that in Canadian history, and still today, anti–partyism is critical of parliamentary government. In the mid–nineteenth century its proponents argued for the rule of the demos , …
Reconciling Parliament and Rights: A. V. Dicey Reads the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In The Law of the Constitution , Dicey contends that parliamentary sovereignty guarantees rights. An absurd claim? Perhaps. But sympathetic exploration shows he is relying on assumptions central to liberal constitutionalism about the power of free speech and partisan debate to effect good laws. He expects rights guarantees to emerge from the contest among parties in the legislature. Reading Dicey today shows how deep-seated is the loss of confide…
Canada’s Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican?
Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism co…
Liberalism, Community, and CultureWill Kymlicka Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. v, 280
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Canada's First Constitution: Pierre Bédard on Tolerance and Dissent
Pierre Bédard, leader of the French Canadian party in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1792 until 1812, and a staunch defender of British political institutions, is compared with two of his compatriots whose opinion of the British system is less admiring. To understand the dilemma of colonial politics Bédard attempts to reconcile the idea of tolerance and freedom that he finds in British constitutional authorities like Locke and Blac…
Political Thought of Lord Durham
While the standard interpretation has portrayed Durham as prejudiced and ignorant about French Canada, Ajzenstat shows that, on the contrary, the assimilation proposal follows from Durham's consideration of ways of opening the widest political and economic opportunities for French Canadians. She argues that far from being "racist," as so many historians have suggested, Durham's proposals reflect the tolerance at the heart of liberalism which proh…
Alexis de Tocqueville and the New Science of PoliticsJohn C. Koritansky Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1986, pp. viii, 162
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Is Democracy Possible? The Alternative to Electoral PoliticsJohn Burnheim, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 205
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Modern Mixed Government: A Liberal Defence of Inequality
Eighteenth-century British Whig and Tory accounts of mixed government and the balanced constitution are examined together with the similar doctrine favoured by British liberals of the Great Reform Bill period, among them Lord Durham. Durham's Report of 1839 is particularly interesting, it is argued, since it purports to demonstrate the superiority of mixed government to the kind of majoritarian democracy put forward in those years by British and …
Liberalism and Nationality
Les historiens et les politicologues ont généralement déploré la proposition de Lord Durham, dans son rapport de 1839, d'assimiler les francophones du Canada. Dans cet article, on soutient que si on lisait le Rapport non pas comme une formule politique pour le Canada de 1840 on pour le Commonwealth britannique des années subséquentes mais plutôt comme un document dans la tradition de la pensée libérale britannique, la proposition d'assimilation t…
Lord Durham's report: An abridgement of Report on the affairs of British North America
The purpose of this valuable abridged edition of the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) by Lord Durham is to make the enduring features of the Report available to the student and the general reader. The editor provides the context of the report in his introduction
Reconciling Parliament and Rights: A. V. Dicey Reads the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In The Law of the Constitution , Dicey contends that parliamentary sovereignty guarantees rights. An absurd claim? Perhaps. But sympathetic exploration shows he is relying on assumptions central to liberal constitutionalism about the power of free speech and partisan debate to effect good laws. He expects rights guarantees to emerge from the contest among parties in the legislature. Reading Dicey today shows how deep-seated is the loss of confide…
Canada's First Constitution: Pierre Bédard on Tolerance and Dissent
Pierre Bédard, leader of the French Canadian party in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1792 until 1812, and a staunch defender of British political institutions, is compared with two of his compatriots whose opinion of the British system is less admiring. To understand the dilemma of colonial politics Bédard attempts to reconcile the idea of tolerance and freedom that he finds in British constitutional authorities like Locke and Blac…
Modern Mixed Government: A Liberal Defence of Inequality
Eighteenth-century British Whig and Tory accounts of mixed government and the balanced constitution are examined together with the similar doctrine favoured by British liberals of the Great Reform Bill period, among them Lord Durham. Durham's Report of 1839 is particularly interesting, it is argued, since it purports to demonstrate the superiority of mixed government to the kind of majoritarian democracy put forward in those years by British and …
Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada
A proposal for renewed political dialogue in Canada that would attempt to realise the common good by giving significant place to conversation as a means of reconciling our conflicts
Liberalism and Nationality
Les historiens et les politicologues ont généralement déploré la proposition de Lord Durham, dans son rapport de 1839, d'assimiler les francophones du Canada. Dans cet article, on soutient que si on lisait le Rapport non pas comme une formule politique pour le Canada de 1840 on pour le Commonwealth britannique des années subséquentes mais plutôt comme un document dans la tradition de la pensée libérale britannique, la proposition d'assimilation t…
Lord Durham's report: An abridgement of Report on the affairs of British North America
The purpose of this valuable abridged edition of the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) by Lord Durham is to make the enduring features of the Report available to the student and the general reader. The editor provides the context of the report in his introduction
Liberalism and Nationality
Les historiens et les politicologues ont généralement déploré la proposition de Lord Durham, dans son rapport de 1839, d'assimiler les francophones du Canada. Dans cet article, on soutient que si on lisait le Rapport non pas comme une formule politique pour le Canada de 1840 on pour le Commonwealth britannique des années subséquentes mais plutôt comme un document dans la tradition de la pensée libérale britannique, la proposition d'assimilation t…
Modern Mixed Government: A Liberal Defence of Inequality
Eighteenth-century British Whig and Tory accounts of mixed government and the balanced constitution are examined together with the similar doctrine favoured by British liberals of the Great Reform Bill period, among them Lord Durham. Durham's Report of 1839 is particularly interesting, it is argued, since it purports to demonstrate the superiority of mixed government to the kind of majoritarian democracy put forward in those years by British and …
Is Democracy Possible? The Alternative to Electoral PoliticsJohn Burnheim, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 205
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Thought of Lord Durham
While the standard interpretation has portrayed Durham as prejudiced and ignorant about French Canada, Ajzenstat shows that, on the contrary, the assimilation proposal follows from Durham's consideration of ways of opening the widest political and economic opportunities for French Canadians. She argues that far from being "racist," as so many historians have suggested, Durham's proposals reflect the tolerance at the heart of liberalism which proh…
Alexis de Tocqueville and the New Science of PoliticsJohn C. Koritansky Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1986, pp. viii, 162
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liberalism, Community, and CultureWill Kymlicka Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. v, 280
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Canada's First Constitution: Pierre Bédard on Tolerance and Dissent
Pierre Bédard, leader of the French Canadian party in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1792 until 1812, and a staunch defender of British political institutions, is compared with two of his compatriots whose opinion of the British system is less admiring. To understand the dilemma of colonial politics Bédard attempts to reconcile the idea of tolerance and freedom that he finds in British constitutional authorities like Locke and Blac…
Canada’s Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican?
Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism co…
Reconciling Parliament and Rights: A. V. Dicey Reads the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
In The Law of the Constitution , Dicey contends that parliamentary sovereignty guarantees rights. An absurd claim? Perhaps. But sympathetic exploration shows he is relying on assumptions central to liberal constitutionalism about the power of free speech and partisan debate to effect good laws. He expects rights guarantees to emerge from the contest among parties in the legislature. Reading Dicey today shows how deep-seated is the loss of confide…
Two Forms of Democracy: A Response to Mendelsohn's “PublicBrokerage: Constitutional Reform and the Accommodation of Mass Publics”
Underlying Matthew Mendelsohn's plea for popular participation in constitution making is a tradition of democratic thought that Jennifer Smith calls “anti–partyism.” This is not the place to describe types of anti–partyism, or trace its roots in Rousseau; I will say only that in Canadian history, and still today, anti–partyism is critical of parliamentary government. In the mid–nineteenth century its proponents argued for the rule of the demos , …
Once and Future Canadian Democracy: An Essay in Political Thought
In The Once and Future Canadian Democracy Janet Ajzenstat debunks conventional wisdom about Canadian political identity and history. She shows that linking Canadian identity to an ideology that favours the common good over individual interests and counts on big government to achieve it is strangling Canadian democracy by placing fundamental questions beyond debate.
Canada's Founding Debates
Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation - about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from Newfoundland to British Columbia and in the constituent assembly of the Red River Colony. The voices of the powerful and those of lesser note mingle in …
Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada
A proposal for renewed political dialogue in Canada that would attempt to realise the common good by giving significant place to conversation as a means of reconciling our conflicts
Lord Durham’s Report: An Abridgement of Report on the Affairs of British North America by lord durham
In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presum…
The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament
A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)
Documents on the Confederation of British North America: A Compilation Based on Sir Joseph Pope S Confederation Documents Supplemented by Other Official Material
This edition retains Browne's original introduction with its lucid exposition of events from 1858 to 1867. A new introduction by Janet Ajzenstat draws attention to the debt British North Americans owe to the political tradition of British liberalism
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