Canadian state trials : volume 1 : Law, politics, and security measures, 1608-1837 / edited by F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.

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Trials -- History -- Canada.

Law -- Canada -- History.

Justice, Administration of -- Canada -- Political aspects.

Introduction:

State trials, the rule of law and executive powers in early Canada

Part I. c.1608-1783:

1. The crime of Lese-Majeste in New France : defence of the secular and religious order

2. The 'Hoffman rebellion' (1753) and Hoffman's trial (1754): constructive high treason and seditious conspiracy in Nova Scotia under the Stratocracy

3. Twelve apostles or a dozen traitors? : acadian collaborators during King George's war 1744-1788

4. Civilians tried in military courts : Quebec 1759-1764

5. Government by will and pleasure instead of law: military justice and the legal system in Quebec 1775-1783

6. Rebellion and repression in Nova Scotia in the era of the American revolution

Part II. c.1783-1814:

7. Sedition among the loyalists : the cases of Saint John 1784-1786

8. Judges and treason law in lower Canada, England and the United States during the French revolution 1794-1800

9. The official mind and popular protest in a revolutionary era: the case of Newfoundland 1789-1819

10. Sir James Craig's 'Reign of terror' and its impact on emergency powers in lower Canada 1810-1813

11. State trials and security proceedings in upper Canada during the war of 1812

Part III. c.1814-1837:

12. Parliamentary privilege and the repression of dissent in the Canadas

13. The attempted impeachment of the lower Canadian Chief Justices 1814-1815

14. The Gourlay affair : seditious libel and the sedition act in upper Canada 1818-1819

15. Upper Canada in the 1820's : criminal prosecution and the case of Francis Collins

16. Liberty of the press in early Prince Edward Island 1823-1829

17. R v. Howe (1835) for seditious libel : a tale of twelve magistrates

Appendicies:

1. Approaching an iceberg: some guidelines for understanding archival sources relating to state trials

2. Note on sources

3. Supporting documents.

Includes index.

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xiv, 744 pages ; 23 cm