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This paper sets the current debate about Canada's criminal law prohibiting polygamy in an historical, social and legal context, and argues that this law is constitutionally valid and sound social policy. Unlike the recognition of same-sex marriage, which promoted equality and saved government resources, the recognition of polygamy would promote inequality and impose costs on Canadian society. The social reality of polygamy is often exploitative of women and harmful to children, and its practice is contrary to fundamental Canadian values. If Canada's prohibition on polygamy is ruled unconstitutional, we would likely have to allow immigration by polygamous families. Western European countries, which allowed immigration by polygamous families in the past, experienced significant social and...
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...I agree. The statutory amendment enacted in 1982 (see An Act to amend the Charter o... by Raynold Langlois, Q.C., entitled "Les clauses limitatives des Chartes canadienne et québécoise... be taken seriously in the legislative process. 90 From this perspective, it is through the combi.... . . relied on the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to strike down econ...
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... jurisprudence regarding the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States... the now-defunct Privileges or Immunities Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. By doing so, Justice ... "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"; and (4) guaranteed all persons within sta...
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...United States Constitution, art. IV, Fourteenth Amendment. Authors Cited. Black, Vaughan. "Interpr... is to say: To accept service of notice or process on its behalf. . . . Insurance Corporation of Brit... is governed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Full Faith and...
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... of the trade agreements, but seldom the process of how trade courts balance competing interests. ..... The first amendment of the Bill of Rights provides that, "Congress sha... speech or of the press." The due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends this constitut...
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... the words "equality before the law" in clause (b). That was not done in the Drybones case. There... not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law;. (b) the right of the individual to equali... concept exemplified by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the cou... process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. Those cases have at best a marginal rel...
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...The same process occurs for all so-called Board grains. When the ba... monies, the critical issue for first amendment purposes is whether the payor is required to assoc...The "due process" clause in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States C...
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... law-Civil rights-Motor vehicles-Due process of law - Self -crimination - Compulsory breath tes...16 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 (Can.), c. 38. That it may have a ste... of what is specified in any of the clauses (a) to (f) of s. 1. It is, à fortiori, offensive ... there of those parts of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the American Constitution that forbi...
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... on mandatory supervision -- Whether amendment amounts to denial of prisoner's liberty contrary t... release that is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This finding w...