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The Director of the Institute for Intergovernmental Relations herein underscores the fact that neither the protection of human rights nor political sovereignty can fully ensure the rights of national or ethnic minorities. He points out to this effect that the doctrine of liberalism is deficient due to its superficial apprehension of the relationship between the individual and the collectivity. As for the principle of sovereignty, it too fails on the level of social theory. The author proposes as a solution to the problem of ethnic minorities various elements. First, he suggests federalism, but mainly the instigation of a new political formula as a complement to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The purpose of this formula would be to define and ensure the rights of ethnic minorities through the drafting of standards of conduct, partial self-goverment and the establishing of intergovernmental accords.
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Acadia from its initial settlement in 1604 until 1713 was a part of the French colonial empire in North America. By the Treaty of Utrecht most of Acadia and its French population was ceded to the British. The political instability generated by the anomalous position of the Acadians eventually led to their expulsion in 1755. During the following 50 years their efforts at repatriation were thwarted and only toward the end of the period were they finally settled in places offering a measure of security. The trends of their migrations over the period are illustrated, as well as their final settlement pattern in 1800.
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As a result of its hi-jural legal system consisting of Common Law and Civil Law jurisdictions, Cameroon has been faced with some serious legal dilemmas. Amongst the problems that have arisen is the question of whether a judge in a Civil Law jurisdiction has the authority to judge a divorce matter where the parties to the action are domiciled in a Common Law jurisdiction and vice versa. This article aims to undertake an analysis of the legal system in Cameroon in an attempt to provide a solution to the foregoing issue.
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The use of biographical elements in a literary essay can arise from the need to organize archival material according to the narrative logic of a life story. Borrowing from a genre with which the reader is familiar, the history of mentalities, the history of the literary institution and reflections on identity combine in a hybrid form, the “biographical essay”. The biographical essay is characterized by techniques belonging to fiction and metafiction, and the flexibility of this type of writing gives the author permission to explore reading hypotheses about his character or the reference society, with infinitely more freedom (but just as much rigour) as a traditional academic essay. Bernard Andrès adopted this method in his fictionalized biography, L'énigme de Sales Laterrière. He is also applying it to his current research on literary adventurers of the eighteenth century.