• Chapter 1: Introduction: Constituting Law, Constituting Justice in the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 2: Invoking Equality, Invoking Legality: Jews Constituting Their Canadian Identity
• Chapter 3: Schools, Taxes, Jews, Catholics (and Protestants): The Origins of the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 4: Jews and Roman Catholics, School Taxes and Protestants: The First Jewish School Question
• Chapter 5: Taxes, the Rabbi and the Schoolboy: S
• 93 and the Pinsler Case
• Chapter 6: Promises, Promises: "Honorary Protestants" in Protestant Schools
• Chapter 7: Jews, Protestants, and Taxes (Again): The Jewish School Question in the 1920s
• Chapter 8: Jews, Protestants, Roman Catholics, and the Law: The Jewish School Question Goes to Court
• Chapter 9: Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics: Two Crises, and the Jewish School Question, 1928-31
• Chapter 10: The Protestant Jews of Ste. Sophie and La Macaza: Constituting School and Community in Rural Quebec
• Chapter 11: Outremont and Beyond: The Jewish School Question Moves West
• Chapter 12: Hampstead and Beyond: From the Ghetto to Citizenship and Equality under Law's Shadow
• Chapter 13: TMR, St. Laurent, Cote Saint-Luc: Democracy, Law, and the End of the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 14: Constituting Canada and the Jewish School Question in Montreal.
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When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as "honorary Protestants, " based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities. In the face of the constitution's exclusionary language, all parties gave their compromise a legal form which was frankly unconstitutional, but unavoidable if Jewish children were to have access to public schools. Bargaining in the shadow of the law, they made their own constitution long before the formal constitutional amendment of 1997 finally put an end to the issue. In Honorary Protestants, David Fraser presents the first legal history of the Jewish school question in Montreal. Based on extensive archival research, it highlights the complex evolution of concepts of rights, citizenship, and identity, negotiated outside the strict legal boundaries of the constitution.
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• List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction * English Justice in a Foreign Land * Making Justices * The Character of the Magistracy * The Police before the Police * The Relevance of Criminal Justice * Experiencing the Everyday Course of Criminal Justice * Criminal Justice and Social Power * Criminal Justice and State Power Conclusion Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index.
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The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British criminal justice system. Magistrates, Police, and People challenges this simplistic view of the relationship between criminal law and Quebec society, offering instead a fresh view of a complex accord. Based on extensive research in judicial and official sources, Donald Fyson offers the first comprehensive study of the everyday workings of criminal justice in Quebec and Lower Canada. Focussing on the justices of the peace and their police, Fyson examines both the criminal justice system itself, and the system in operation as experienced by those who participated in it. Fyson contends that, although the system was fundamentally biased, its flexibility provided a source of power for ordinary citizens. At the same time, everyday criminal justice offered the colonial state and colonial elites a powerful, though often faulty, means of imposing their will on Quebec society. This fascinating and controversial study will challenge many received historical interpretations, providing new insight into the criminal justice system of early Quebec.
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Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and formation of the institutional state. Central to codification was a profound ideological shift in Lower Canadian society that gave priority to exchange and individual property rights. Young examines the evolution of codification from its nationalist origins in the 1820s and 1830s into a Civil Code that was integral to Confederation and became a flagship of bilingualism in Quebec. The formation of the commission, the work of the codifiers, and the reaction of the anglophone minority and the Roman Catholic hierarchy are considered, as is the Code's meticulous blending of a conservative social vision with the principles of freedom of property. The Politics of Codification will be of great interest to students of law, members of the legal professions, and Canadian social and legal historians.
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