Canadian Federalist Experiment : From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic ISBN: 9780773571013 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Political Science;
In The Canadian Federalist Experiment Frederick Vaughan details how the fathers of Confederation, defiantly determined to perpetuate monarchical government despite Enlightenment philosophy that insisted that republicanism was the only legitimate form of government, embraced the Hobbesean principles of the English constitution and embedded them in the new Canadian constitution in 1867, leading to concentration of power in the office of the prime minister.