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Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997

Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997

Fraser, David

Hardcover

Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Canadian HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1442630485
ISBN13: 9781442630482
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 2 2015
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as honorary Protestants, based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities. In the face of the constitution's exclusionary language, all parties gave their compromise a legal form which was frankly unconstitutional, but unavoidable if Jewish children were to have access to public schools. Bargaining in the shadow of the law, they made their own constitution long before the formal constitutional amendment of 1997 finally put an end to the issue.

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