Mr Attorney : : The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet, and Legislature 1791–1899 / / Paul Romney.
In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-nineteenth century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. King Lear's Fool
- 2. The Rewards of Office
- 3. A Question of Confidence
- 4. Responsibility and Independence
- 5. The Public Peace
- 6. In Right of Ontario
- 7. Minister of Justice
- Conclusion: Law and the Constitution
- Appendix
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Index