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Mesures d'exception et règle de droit : Les conditions d'application de la loi martiale au Québec lors des rébellions de 1837-1838
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Mesures d'exception et règle de droit : Les conditions d'application de la loi martiale au Québec lors des rébellions de 1837-1838
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| Abstract |
The author notes that in the nineteenth century, the juridical status of martial law in Britain was unsettled. While in the metropolis an entire school of thought denied its very existence, martial law came to justify military intervention in the colonies. The author studies the implementation of this type of exceptional measure in the context of the 1837 and 1838 rebellions in Lower Canada. His aim is to show that in the circumstances prevalent in Lower Canada at that time, the imposition of martial law served less to repress military insurrection than to make up for the serious deficiencies in the civil system for maintaining order. The author argues that specific contradictions in the colonial administrative and legal systems left no alternative but recourse to military intervention, thereby opening the door to legal arbitrariness and revealing the hidden face of the strict formalism of the rule of law. The author concludes that the Lower Canadian example enables us to measure in full the political and legal limits of the British system of maintaining order in the colonies, in a time of transition toward industrial capitalism.
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McGill Law Journal / Revue de droit de McGill
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Vol. 32
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no. 3
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465-496
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1987
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fr
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Fecteau, Jean-Marie. “Mesures d’exception et règle de droit : Les conditions d’application de la loi martiale au Québec lors des rébellions de 1837-1838.” McGill Law Journal / Revue de droit de McGill Vol. 32, no. 3 (1987): 465–496. https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/wp-content/uploads/pdf/19030-Fecteau.pdf.
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