| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 471 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetuated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants. Calling Power to Account uses the litigation around the Chinese Canadian head tax as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims." "Calling Power to Account suggest that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the head tax case."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Context and History""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation""; ""Litigating Injustice""; ""Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework""; ""Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?""; ""The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination""; ""Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice""; ""The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government"" |
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""Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs""""Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress""; ""Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice""; ""Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case""; ""The Juristic Force of Injustice""; ""Private Right and Public Wrong""; ""The Timing of Injustice""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment"" |
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""A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States""""Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law""; ""Appendix I: Appellants' Factum""; ""Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada � Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- Congresses.
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Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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History. |
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Chinese. |
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Reparations for historical injustices -- Canada -- Congresses.
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Reparations for historical injustices. |
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Canada. |
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Chinese -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.
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Chinese -- Taxation. |
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. |
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Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.
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Emigration and immigration law. |
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Chinese Canadians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. |
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Chinese Canadians -- Civil rights -- History. |
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Chinese Canadians -- Government policy -- History. |
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Chinese Canadians -- Government relations -- History. |
| Indexed Term |
Chinese Canadians |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Dyzenhaus, David.
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Moran, Mayo.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Calling power to account. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2005 9786612028908 (DLC) 2006276121 (OCoLC)57638196 |
| ISBN |
9781442671669 (electronic book) |
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1442671661 (electronic book) |
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1282028901 |
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9781282028906 |
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0802038727 (bound) |
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0802038085 (paperback) |
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9780802038081 (paperback) |
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9780802038722 (bound) |
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