{"product_id":"by-authority-of-parliament-the-constitutional-boundaries-of-legislative-power-in-canada-hardcover","title":"By Authority of Parliament: The Constitutional Boundaries of Legislative Power in Canada - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRyan Alford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed that legislatures, including Parliament, are bound by the Constitution - even beyond the explicit text of the Charter and the British North America Act. Yet legislatures are increasingly asserting authority through rights-limiting laws and the use of the notwithstanding clause. This tension between parliamentary sovereignty and constitutional rights exposes a dangerous misconception: that Canadian legislators can abolish all of our fundamental rights with ordinary law. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy Authority of Parliament\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that legislators do not have this power, and more importantly, they never did. Drawing on rich historical analysis, Ryan Alford traces the transformation of parliamentary sovereignty into an exaggerated parliamentary supremacy and uses \u003ci\u003ehabeas corpus\u003c\/i\u003e to illustrate constitutional limits that governed in England, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Absolute rights and sovereignty appear to conflict only when sovereignty is redefined as supremacy, a shift justified by the influential constitutional theorist A.V. Dicey. As UK courts have recently turned away from this paradigm, Alford argues that Canadian courts should be equally forthright in recognizing that the Diceyan model has never described the Canadian constitutional order. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssential reading for students, lawyers, and judges, this timely book will interest all those engaged in Canadian legal history and constitutional law.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Alford is associate professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, a bencher of the Law Society of Ontario, and author of Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48505499844857,"sku":"9780228027850","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ILjiVJqHAA9780228027850.webp?v=1781043520","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/by-authority-of-parliament-the-constitutional-boundaries-of-legislative-power-in-canada-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}