Emigration & Immigration, Tax Law, Legal History, Chinese, Legal status, Congress, Canada, taxation, Law and legislation, Race discrimination 

"Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetuated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants. Calling Power to Account uses the litigation around the Chinese Canadian head tax as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims." "Calling Power to Account suggest that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the head tax case."--Jacket. 

Mack v. Attorney General of Canada : Equality, History, and Reparation / David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran -- Litigating Injustice / Avvy Go -- Legal Discrimination Against the Chinese in Canada : the Historical Framework / Constance Backhouse -- Can We Do Wrong to Strangers? / Audrey Macklin -- The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law : the Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination / John McLaren -- The Limits of Constitutionalism : Requiring Moral Behaviour From Government / Mary Eberts -- Delivering the Goods and the Good : Repairing Moral Wrongs / Catherine Lu -- Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time : Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress / Jeremy Webber -- Redress for Unjust state Action : an Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction / Lorne Sossin -- Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case / Julian Rivers -- The Juristic Force of Injustice / David Dyzenhaus -- The Timing of Injustice / Lionel Smith -- Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment / Dennis Klimchuk -- A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States / Anthony J. Sebok -- Time, Place, and Values : Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law / Mayo Moran -- App. I: Appellants' Factum -- App II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada -- Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.