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  ipedia.com: Monarchy in Canada Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Today, virtually all of the Queen's Canadian duties are performed by her representatives in Canada, the Governor General and the Lieutenant Governors of the provinces, though occasionally the Queen's authority is appealed to by Canada's partisan political leaders.
Prominent critics of the monarchy such as Citizens for a Canadian Republic point out that the Act of Settlement explicitly excludes Roman Catholics from the throne and the Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring her to be an Anglican.
To counter this argument, Citizens for a Canadian Republic in March 2004 proposed measures to avoid constitutional deadlock by advocating a parliamentary reform of the office of the governor general, an office generally expected to be transformed into a presidency should the monarchy end.
www.ipedia.com /monarchy_in_canada.html   (2684 words)

  
 Anti-Monarchy Myths - Canadian Monarchist ONLINE
Similar to the previous republican argument, this is the republican counter-argument to the monarchist's argument that presidents are partisan.
Canadians have shed their colonialist past by changing the national anthem, the flag, and by the Canadian way of doing business in a global community.
Republicanism became fever-pitch in Australia recently as it was the pet-project of a previous prime-minister.
www.interlog.com /~rakhshan/pmyth.html   (1175 words)

  
 cars - Monarchy in Canada
Although it's unlikely that a republican head of state would be less costly, it's important to note that the present Governor General is now considered by the government to be the de facto head of state, and already engages in all roles and protocols expected of one.
To counter this argument, republicans in March 2004 proposed measures to avoid constitutional deadlock by advocating a parliamentary reform of the office of the Governor General, an office generally expected to be transformed into a presidency should the monarchy end.
Some republicans have proposed that there be a national debate on the monarchy before the next sovereign is proclaimed, and one constitutional scholar, Ted McWhinney, has argued that Canada can become a republic upon the demise of the current Queen by not proclaiming a successor.
www.carluvers.com /cars/Queen_of_Canada   (3965 words)

  
 Religion in Canada: Its Development and Contemporary Situation by Roger O'Toole for the American Religious Experience
While Canadian recruits typically resemble their American or European counterparts and the attractions of NRM membership transcend national boundaries, a specifically Canadian variation on the familiar theme of NRM appeal to the marginal, confused and disoriented has been provided by Roland Chagnon (1985).
Though the fathers of Canadian confederation supplied a scriptural charter for their new dominion (Psalms 72:8), the central precepts of their new political nationality were devotion to the Crown and respect for the British parliamentary tradition.
Canadians now choose to define the nature and content of their religiosity by drawing from that "reservoir of rites, practices and beliefs" with which they are most familiar "without responding to any institutional prerequisites or their consequences" (Voyé and Dobbelaere, 1993: 95-96).
are.as.wvu.edu /o'toole.html   (7547 words)

  
 Republicanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty and rule by the people.
In England a republicanism evolved that was not wholly opposed to monarchy, but rather thinkers such as Thomas More and John Milton saw a monarchy firmly constrained by law as compatible with republicanism.
All republicans rejected inherited elites and aristocracies, but the question was open whether the republic, in order to restrain unchecked majority rule, should have an unelected upper chamber, the members perhaps appointed meritorious experts, or should have a constitutional monarch.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republicanism   (5369 words)

  
 A more perfect Dominion: Time for the Canadian Republic
The Canadian national delusion that our appointed judiciary is somehow purer and morally superior to the American system is nothing but a farce as anyone familiar with the workings of the judicial councils that submit names for judgeships can tell you.
Canadians have been conditioned to abdicate their individual imperatives and the sovereignty of their suffrage to institutions.
The English political philosopher Herbert Spencer wrote that, “The Republican form of Government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature.” Americans may not have perfected the “highest type of human nature”.
www.canadafreepress.com /2006/wajsman112006.htm   (1672 words)

  
 Monarchy in Canada - Gurupedia
Many Canadian republicans also say it would remove Canada's last political connection to her colonial past, and thus improve her image as a sovereign nation.
His case was dismissed by the court, which found that the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution and thus the Charter of Rights does not have supremacy over it.
Citizens for a Canadian Republic in March 2004 proposed measures to avoid constitutional deadlock by advocating a parliamentary reform of the office of the governor general, an office generally expected to be transformed into a presidency should the monarchy end.
www.gurupedia.com /m/mo/monarchy_in_canada.htm   (2400 words)

  
 Republicanism
Although the focus of much republican sentiment was symbolism, there was also an important undercurrent of republican constitutionalism.(55) The dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s Labour government by the Governor-General in 1975 revealed, in the view of Reynolds, that "representative government in Australia was an empty gesture when confronted with viceroy sovereignty".
The personal power of the Sovereign and his or her local representative is strictly limited, and the cost of the monarchy is borne, to a great extent, by the British taxpayer.(174) This leaves nationalism or symbolism as the major factor.
The republican tradition in Australia was grounded in nationalism, a degree of Irish republicanism (which saw the Crown as symbolic of British oppression(175)), and a smaller degree of doctrinaire republicanism, whose advocates saw hereditary authority, however attenuated, as inimical to democracy.
www.geocities.com /noelcox/Republicanism.htm   (9615 words)

  
 Canadian Studies
Republicans in the US periodically ask “why do they hate us?” The one thing that could convince a whole bunch of “them” that the US is not that bad is to have a reasonable two-state policy solution for Palestinians.
Republicans claim to be conservatives and so the fact that they want to conserve things is hardly shocking.
Republicans have also had the upper hand over the last eight years or so because their opponents have not been able to answer the “what if” question.
cana7blog.blogspot.com   (16057 words)

  
 Republicanism in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian republicanism is the advocacy of constitutional change in Canada leading to the abolition of constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth and the creation of a republic as a Commonwealth republic.
Republican sentiment became more prominent with the rise of the Quebec nationalist movement in the 1960s with the demands for an independent republic of Quebec put forward by both the Front de libération du Québec which advocated violent methods and the parliamentary Quebec indépendentistes who formed the Parti Québécois.
While the idea of a republic was a minor issue during the Canadian Constitutional negotiations of the 1970s, when a new Constitution was agreed to in 1982 it included a provision requiring unanimous consent of the federal government and all ten provincial governments before any change could be implemented to the status of the monarchy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republicanism_in_Canada   (493 words)

  
 Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution Canadian Journal of History - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Lamenting the lack of a book-length study of republican thought in England and the consistent reliance upon the writings of interregnum author James Harrington (1611-77) as the key to interpreting republican argument in England, Scott wishes to offer a corrective.
In his presentation and scrutiny of the varieties of republican ideology, the quality of Scott's work is on par with that produced by J.GA. Pocock and Quentin Skinner, even if all three would disagree about much that might be called republican.
Chapter sixteen, "Republicans and Whigs, 1680-1725," describes how Algernon Sidney claimed that republicans were God's people and that Walter Moyle with John Trenchard suggested that the ability of all citizens to bear arms in defence of the commonwealth had biblical precedence.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200512/ai_n16350366   (855 words)

  
 Elitist, Racist, Religionist, Sexist, Inegalitarian: Canada's Head-of-State
It seems that many Canadians are unaware that their head-of-state is a foreigner awarded the position by happenstance of birth.
Ipsos-Reid in February 2002 found that 48 % of Canadians consider the constitutional monarchy “outmoded” and prefer a republican government with an elected head of state.
A majority of Canadians opposed empire in Iraq and as awareness grows of the colonial implications of the monarchy in Canada, it will dawn on more Canadians that the monarchy in Canada is an institution that doesn’t belong in an aspiring progressive nation.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/Petersen_Canadian-Monarchy.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Citizens for a Canadian Republic / History
The contentiousness surrounding the Oath of Allegiance survives today and is one issue that fuels the modern Canadian republican movement.
Canadian settlers as a result of their ordeal would later help mold Canada’s national psyche and assist in perpetuating the
It would have amended the act of citizenship to better define the responsibilities of Canadian citizenship and delete reference to Queen Elizabeth II and her heirs and successors.
www.canadian-republic.ca /history.html   (4966 words)

  
 Dust my Broom » In the Groove » Canadian troops accused of terrorism
The resolution comparing Canadian troops to terrorists, put forward by the Nanaimo-Cowichan riding association in British Columbia, says Canada’s goals “cannot be achieved by violence when the ‘enemy’ cannot be distinguished from ordinary citizens” and calls for Canadian troops to be withdrawn from that country.
However the Republicanism that the NDP pushes is more like the Peoples Republic of China than like the Republic of the United States of America.
Republicanism is a non-starter and is, therefore, harmless to discuss.
www.dustmybroom.com /?p=4413   (1334 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Canadian Republicanism and Christian Zionism
Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward, not backwards.
Canadian Toryism was about fixed classes based on bloodline, and about protecting the Family Compact from any kind of competition or threat.
The compacts tried to become a Canadian version of aristocracy but they never co-opted enough of the wealth of the nation to be able to maintain their power.
www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20060823133220685   (4335 words)

  
 The Monarchist League Of Canada
The Monarchy is an integral part of Canada's history and identity, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's role as Canada's Head of State is a source of profound pride to a large number of Canadians.
"At the same time, many Canadians are voicing their opinions that a natural evolution of Canada's nationhood should involve the eventual adoption of a system that would see a Canadian as Head of State.
Mr Fenton interviewed the Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada and a clutch of Canadians he met on the streets of urban Toronto and rural Queensville.
www.monarchist.ca /cmn/summer011.htm   (979 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Yankee Go Home: Canadians and Anti-Americanism: Books: J. L. Granatstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Of the varieties of anti-Americanism in the world, the Canadian strain has the oldest lineage, and according to this noted Canadian historian, it is finished as a factor in Canadian politics.
It is interesting that it appears an article of faith among modern Canadians that the U.S. revolution against Britain was fundamentally illegitimate and the root of much evil in world today.
It is especially sad in these days of continuing friction between central and western English-speaking Canada and its Francophone and maritime provinces that Canadians conveniently seek an external locus of control on which to blame their problems.
www.amazon.com /Yankee-Go-Home-Canadians-Anti-Americanism/dp/0006385419   (1239 words)

  
 Time for the Canadian Republic by Beryl Wajsman
“The Republican form of Government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature.”~ Herbert Spencer
In recent years, particularly from the time Liberal John Nunziata was expelled from the Liberal caucus for voting to rid us of the Goods and Sales Tax (which had been a Liberal campaign promise), it should have become eminently clear that our system does not allow for government by the people.
God knows we’ve had enough of the feckless leadership of “consensus” driven by polls and focus groups.
www.theconservativevoice.com /article/20412.html   (1705 words)

  
 Fight Anti-Monarchist - Canadian Monarchist ONLINE
If you come across republicans, you'll notice that their arguments are weak, and rely on the current problems of the Royal Family.
Addresses can be easily found by checking books such as the Matthews Media Guide or the Canadian Almanac and Sourcebook in the reference section of your local library.
This method is extremely important, since most media sources are republican, it is essential that your views are heard.
www.interlog.com /~rakhshan/pcani.html   (700 words)

  
 Dust my Broom » In the Groove » Albertans un-Canadian
Included in their baggage were such social infections as republicanism and their adoration of firearms.
It starts off by claiming to debunk Leon Craig’s assertion that albertans dont share the same values as eastern canadians, and then proceeds to prove Craig’s point by claiming that albertans are not only different, they hold un-canadian values.
How does the large immigration of peoples who are fleeing nations that are corrupt; leaving countries to escape cruel dictatorships, turning from governments that have no respect for the rule of law or human rights, impact their values when they become part of our society?
www.dustmybroom.com /?p=1431   (934 words)

  
 The Spirit of Modern Republicanism
The constitutional debates that had for ages since Aristotle and Cicero been the central focus or highest theme of serious political science and history were more and more ignored.
The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed.
His publications include Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism (1973,1989), The Laws of Plato (1979), The Roots of Political Philosophy, editor (1987), The Spirit of Modern Republicanism (1988), The Ennobling of Democracy (1992), Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham (2003).
www.ou.edu /cas/psc/bookpangle3.htm   (942 words)

  
 canrepublic-english.html
Citizens for a Canadian Republic (CCR): Organization for the advancement of a Canadian Republic.
Monarchy Free Canada: Source for news and information about the republican movement in Canada.
Rabble.ca: Alternative source for Canadian and International news and information.
canadian-republic.freeservers.com   (157 words)

  
 republicanism - OneLook Dictionary Search
Republicanism, republicanism : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
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 Canadian Dimension / Articles / The Flagging Empire (Paul William Roberts)
Canadian Dimension / Articles / The Flagging Empire (Paul William Roberts)
That we are not more aware of this is a sign of the complacency that precedes disaster.
And such a disaster, if it comes, will arise from the consequences of bordering an imperial superpower undergoing the death throes of republicanism and heading steadily toward oligarchic totalitarianism.
canadiandimension.com /articles/2005/09/12/84   (3065 words)

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