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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kunz, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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: Partisanship 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 -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index