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Constitutional Law of Canada

Peter W. Hogg
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The article was published on 1977-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 432 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comparative law & Public law.

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Dignity and health: a review.

TL;DR: The review explicates two main meanings of dignity-human dignity and social dignity, and looks at how these two ideas are used in the arenas of human rights, law, social justice, bioethics, and clinical care and suggests some implications of these meanings and uses for health research and advocacy.
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A political theory of federalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether practical federal arrangements can sufficiently insulate governmental decisions at all levels to maintain a stable and credible decentralized political structure in multi-ethnic nations such as the United States and Australia.
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Barriers to Access of Primary Healthcare by Immigrant Populations in Canada: A Literature Review

TL;DR: The demographic and ethno-cultural distributions of the study populations across the provinces highlight the need to expand research to encompass more varied immigrant groups across more regions of Canada, including more research on male immigrants and immigrant seniors, and to increase research related to health care providers’ perspectives on the barriers.
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The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency

TL;DR: In this paper, Dyzenhaus explores the idea that there is an unwritten constitution of law, exemplified in the common law constitution of Commonwealth countries, and argues that even in the absence of an entrenched bill of rights, the law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule-of-law project capable of responding to situations which place legal and political order under great stress.
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Canada: National-building in a federal welfare state

TL;DR: In Canada, three distinct models of federalism govern different social programmes: classical federalism, with programmes run exclusively by one level of government; shared cost federalism with the federal government financially supporting provincial programs; and joint-decision federalism where formal approval by both levels of government is mandatory before any action can take place as discussed by the authors.