Описание: The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving NorthAmerican squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates andForemasts offers a masterful analysis of the motives behind thedeployment of Royal Navy vessels between 1745 and 1815, and thenavy’s role on the Western Atlantic. Interweaving historicalanalysis with vivid descriptions of pivotal events from the first siegeof Louisbourg in 1745 to the end of the wars with the United States andFrance in 1815, Julian Gwyn illuminates the complex story of competinginterests among the Admiralty, Navy Board, sea officers, and governmentofficials on both sides of the Atlantic.
Описание: The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving NorthAmerican squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates andForemasts offers a masterful analysis of the motives behind thedeployment of Royal Navy vessels between 1745 and 1815, and thenavy’s role on the Western Atlantic. Interweaving historicalanalysis with vivid descriptions of pivotal events from the first siegeof Louisbourg in 1745 to the end of the wars with the United States andFrance in 1815, Julian Gwyn illuminates the complex story of competinginterests among the Admiralty, Navy Board, sea officers, and governmentofficials on both sides of the Atlantic.
Описание: Another Kind of Justice is the first historical survey of Canadian military law, providing insights into military justice in Canada, the purpose of military law, and the level of legal professionalism within the Canadian military. After delving into the British roots of Canadian military law, Chris Madsen brings his discussion up to date with analysis of recent sexual discrimination cases and the Somalia inquiry. He explains how the law has served a strictly functional purpose in maintaining discipline, and demonstrates how it claims its legitimacy and distinct status in relation to civil law.
Описание: Another Kind of Justice is the first historical survey of Canadian military law, providing insights into military justice in Canada, the purpose of military law, and the level of legal professionalism within the Canadian military. After delving into the British roots of Canadian military law, Chris Madsen brings his discussion up to date with analysis of recent sexual discrimination cases and the Somalia inquiry. He explains how the law has served a strictly functional purpose in maintaining discipline, and demonstrates how it claims its legitimacy and distinct status in relation to civil law.
The federal Department of Justice was established by John A. Macdonald as part of the Conservative party's program for reform of the parliamentary system following Confederation. Among other things, it was charged with establishing national institutions such as the Supreme Court and the North West Mounted Police and with centralizing the penitentiary system. In the process, the department took on a position of primary importance in post-Confederation politics. This was particularly so up to 1878, when Confederation was "completed."
Jonathan Swainger considers the growth and development of the ostensibly apolitical Department of Justice in the eleven years after the union of 1867. Drawing on legal records and other archival documents, he details the complex interactions between law and politics, exploring how expectations both inside and outside the legal system created an environment in which the department acted as an advisor to the government. He concludes by considering the post-1878 legacy of the department's approach to governance, wherein any problem, legal or otherwise, was made amenable to politicized solutions. Unfortunately for the department and the federal government, this left them ill-prepared for the constitutional battles to come.
One crucial task was to establish responsibilities within the federal government, rather than just duplicate offices which had existed prior to union. Others were the establishment of national or quasi- national institutions such as the Supreme Court (1875) and the North-West Mounted Police (1873), the redrafting of the Governor-General's instructions (which was done between 1875 and 1877), and centralization of the penitentiary system (completed by 1875).
The Department benefited from a deeply rooted expectation that law was both apolitical and necessary. This ideology functioned in a variety of ways: it gave the Department considerable latitude for setting policy and solving problems, but rationalized the appearance of politicized legal decisions. It also legitimized Department officials' claim that it was especially suited to review all legislation, advise on the royal prerogative of mercy, administer national penitentiaries, and appoint judges to the bench. Ultimately, the fictional notion of law as apolitical and necessary placed the Department of Justice squarely in the midst of the completion of Confederation.
The Canadian Department of Justice and the Completion of Confederation will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Canadian legal and political history.
This work is concerned with important facts and incidents connected with the rise and progress of Methodism in New Jersey within the first twenty years of its history, along with sketches of most of the ministers of this period, and several of the more prominent and influential laymen. "The first of this sect, of whom we have any information, was John Early, a native of Ireland, where he was born in the year 1738. He immigrated to this country in 1764, and settled in New Jersey." But, it is the zealous Captain Thomas Webb (preaching as early as 1770) that must be credited with laying the foundation of Methodism in New Jersey, and inspiring the first class-reader, Joseph Toy. The early efforts of Bishop Asbury, the first conference of 1773 followed by subsequent conferences up to 1789, the first church, progress in Burlington and New Mills, Benjamin Abbott and Salem, brief sketches of preachers: Watters, Pillmore, Ivy, Tunnell, Everett, Rowe, Thomas, Spry, Ringold, Hickson, and Magary, and much more are covered. Adams, Borden, Brush, Chew, Cloud, Combs, Coke, Cook, Cooper, Cox, Crane, Cromwell, Duke, Dudley, Ellis, Fidler, Foster, Garrettson, Gill, Greentree, Haggerty, Heiser, Jackson, James, Lee, Merrick, Metcalf, Mills, Molliner, Morrell, Ogden, Partridge, Pedicord, Phoebus, Pyle, Sears, Shadford, Shaw, Sparks, Sterling, Swain, Walker, Ware, and Wesley are some of the many names that pepper these pages.
