Article
The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights in Canada
American Journal of Comparative Law
(1984)
Abstract
This article reviews the constitutional and historical grounds for Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada and discusses the legal effects of entrenching these rights in the Constitution of Canada in 1982.
Keywords
- Aboriginal Rights,
- Indigenous Rights,
- Constitutional Law,
- Constitution of Canada,
- History of Canada,
- Indigenous sovereignty,
- Doctrine of discovery
Disciplines
Publication Date
1984
Publisher Statement
Also published as a book chapter in in Boldt, Long, and Little Bear, eds., The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal People and Aboriginal Rights (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985), pp. 114-38.
Citation Information
Brian Slattery. "The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights in Canada" American Journal of Comparative Law Vol. 32 (1984) p. 361 - 391 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brian_slattery/17/