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Of charters and justice: The social thought of F.R. Scott, 1930-1985
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Frank Scott was, arguably, Canada's most accomplished, all-round public intellectual of this century, with an expertise as constitutional lawyer, poet, civil libertarian and socialist. Scott's great impact on constitutional practice was, through his influence on Pierre Trudeau, on the 1982 Constitution: patriation, an amending formula and an entrenched Charter. Scott was, however, more than a nationalist and a Charter-based individualist: his thought also reveals a rich, variegated and often ...
