The Modern Senate of Canada 1925-1963 / Frank Kunz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunz, Frank, author.

Series:

Canadian government series ; 15.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. Parliament. Senate.

Canada.

Constitutional history--Canada.

Constitutional history.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The role of the senate has changed much in recent years and-judging by the amount of recent public discussion on its role-might change even more in the future. This new study, the theoretical framework and theoretical discussion of which lift it out of the merely descriptive, contains a great deal of well-marshalled new material, from manuscript and ephemeral sources as well as from the printed Senate Debates Journals, and Reports of Committees. Little is generally known about the Senate, and of what little, much is erroneous. Professor Kunz's mass of detail and factual data, along with his evaluation of second chambers and of the performance of the Canadian Senate in particular, will do much to remedy this situation.

Contents:

Preface

Bibliographical note

Introduction : A theory of Second Chambers

Part I : The structure of the Senate

1. The appointing system

2. The composition of the Senate

3. The Senate and partisanship: party organization

4. The Senate and partisanship: partisanshop and impartiality

5. Procedure and organization of business

Part II : The Senate at work: technical functions

6. Technical revision of legislation: service by a second look

7. Initiation of legislation: service by a first look

8. General debates and Private Members' Bills

9. The committee system of the Senate

Part III : The Senate at work: its substantive role

10. The Senate versus the Executive

11. The Senate and sectional interests

12. The powers of the Senate and relations between the two Houses

Conclusion

Appendices

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487591076

1487591071

9781487589462

1487589468

OCLC:

1091664347