THE PARLIAMENT: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF CONFEDERATION
Keywords:
Confederation, Edmund Burke, parliamentarianism, liberal constitutionalismAbstract
: I guess that any human who interested in politics can get full information and my personal ideas and different political positions. This article clarifies the intellectual origins of Canadian parliamentary government by situating Confederation within a specific strand of liberal political thought. My argument is that the Fathers of Confederation adhered to the political theory of parliamentarianism. Though liberal constitutionalists, the Fathers of Confederation expressly defended a parliamentary political framework that they considered superior to the American system of checks and balances—one characterized by a powerful elected assembly restrained by an unelected upper house, responsible ministers serving in Parliament, and a constitutional monarch. In elucidating the theory of parliamentarianism that underlies the political project of Confederation, my goal is not only to examine a problem in nineteenth-century Canadian political thought but to ground our current political situation within a larger historical perspective.
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