Approaches to politics

No man played a more prominent role in modern Canadian political life than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He was loved, he was hated, but most of all, he mattered. Trudeau burst like a comet onto the federal political scene, becoming Canada's fifteenth prime minister in 1968. But as this collection of essays from the1950s clearly shows, Trudeau had thought long and hard about the fundamental principles of government and politics before gaining the national spotlight. Approaches to Politics is an essential introduction both to the political philosophy of Pierre Trudeau and to the eternal principles underlying democracy-a book as relevant and readable today as when it was first published four decadesago. INDICE: Foreword to the Wynford Edition by Ramsay Cook; Introduction byRamsay Cook; Prefatory note by Jacques Hébert; 1.: Government by mediocrities; 2. When madmen think they are ministers and MPs; 3. To prevent sedition; 4. The just man must go to prison; 5. Must the tyrant be assassinated?; 6. Obedience-but to whom?; 7. Undermining the majesty of the state; 8. The election; 9.A state made to measure; 10. Tyrannicide, the Jesuits, and Father de Léry; 11. The revolution and Mr André Dagenais; 12. Social contract and popular sovereignty; 13. The statesman as servant; 14. The argument from authority; 15. The jitters; 16. When the people are in power; 17. Contempt of the legislature; 18. The right of protest; 19. St Thomas agrees with Karl Marx; 20. For a living democracy

• ISBN: 978-0-19-543893-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 104
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés