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As a settler state, Canada’s claims to sovereign control over
territory are contested by Indigenous claims to land and to
self-determination. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism
presents legal analyses that explore forms of federalism and their
potential to include multiple and divided sovereignties. This
collection aims to advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples
in Canada and elsewhere by developing jurisprudence on the
possibilities for a nation-to-nation relationship between
Indigenous nations and Crown sovereignty. Contributors use legal
creativity to explore how federalism can be structured to include
the constitutional jurisdiction of Indigenous nations. Several
chapters are grounded in the Canadian context while others connect
the issues to international law and other settler colonial
jurisdictions, recognizing how Indigenous resistance to settler
laws and government decisions can at the same time be the enactment
of Indigenous legalities and constitutional cultures. Ultimately,
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism offers innovative
ways for Canada to move forward from this challenge using existing
constitutional mechanisms to give life to a plurinational Canadian
federalism inclusive of the jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples.
Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet
Union and collapse of the geo-politicall divisions that had defined
much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the 'end
of history' was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that
liberal democracy and free market capitalism are the final form of
law and mode of production in human history? Recent events have
called this into question: the Arab Spring, the War on Terror,
global economic crises, and looming ecological crises. It seems
that history is far from over. Yet, the idea of 'the end' remains,
for example, in the question of the future of the American empire,
the establishment of a new era of international law, and the
resurgence of religion as a dominant source of political
identification. This collection of essays explores 'the end' in
various contexts, including art, politics, and the philosophy of
time and existence. In different ways, all of the essays address
emerging horizons of meaning and reality.
Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet
Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined
much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the end of
history was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that
liberal democracy and free market capitalism are the final form of
law and mode of production in human history? Recent events have
called this into question: the Arab Spring, the War on Terror,
global economic crises, and looming ecological crises. It seems
that history is far from over. Yet, the idea of the end remains,
for example, in the question of the future of the American empire,
the establishment of a new era of international law, and the
resurgence of religion as a dominant source of political
identification. This collection of essays explores the end in
various contexts, including art, politics, and the philosophy of
time and existence. In different ways, all of the essays address
emerging horizons of meaning and reality.
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more
diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative
democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed
subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the
standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and
democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that
through differently situated participatory and representative
practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of
cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these
relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but
sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic
generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform
unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume
integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual,
interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone
gains.
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more
diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative
democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed
subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the
standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and
democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that
through differently situated participatory and representative
practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of
cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these
relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but
sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic
generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform
unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume
integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual,
interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone
gains.
What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that
separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the
distinction between punishment and vengeance-punishment being the
measured use of legally sanctioned violence and vengeance being a
use of violence that has no measure-is expressed by the idea of
"cruel and unusual punishment." This phrase was originally
contained in the English Bill of Rights (1689). But it (and
versions of it) has since found its way into numerous constitutions
and declarations, including Article 5 of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, as well as the Amendment to the US Constitution.
Clearly, in order for the use of violence to be legitimate, it must
be subject to limitation. The difficulty is that the determination
of this limit should be objective, but it is not, and its
application in punitive practice is constituted by a host of
extra-legal factors and social and political structures. It is this
essential contestability of the limit which distinguishes
punishment from violence that this book addresses. And, including
contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, it
offers a plurality of original and important responses to the
contemporary question of the relationship between punishment and
the limits of law.
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The Florida Historical Quarterly October 1945.
The Florida Historical Quarterly October 1945.
As a settler state, Canada’s claims to sovereign control over
territory are contested by Indigenous claims to land and to
self-determination. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism
presents legal analyses that explore forms of federalism and their
potential to include multiple and divided sovereignties. This
collection aims to advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples
in Canada and elsewhere by developing jurisprudence on the
possibilities for a nation-to-nation relationship between
Indigenous nations and Crown sovereignty. Contributors use legal
creativity to explore how federalism can be structured to include
the constitutional jurisdiction of Indigenous nations. Several
chapters are grounded in the Canadian context while others connect
the issues to international law and other settler colonial
jurisdictions, recognizing how Indigenous resistance to settler
laws and government decisions can at the same time be the enactment
of Indigenous legalities and constitutional cultures. Ultimately,
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism offers innovative
ways for Canada to move forward from this challenge using existing
constitutional mechanisms to give life to a plurinational Canadian
federalism inclusive of the jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples.
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