Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Numbered Treaties, Treaty 2, Monarchy Of Canada

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2230E
• Professor: Cameron Anderson

Document Summary

What is the difference between the contingent rights approach and the inherent rights approach to. Aboriginal rights? source of aboriginal rights: is it canadian state or does it lie elsewhere. Contingent rights approach: conceives as aboriginal rights as something the. Arguments advanced to support inherent rights approach: prior to arrival of. Europeans, were independent people settles could only impose their nation through just war: unless indigenous decided to give their rights of sovereign nation through treaty. How are the two approaches to understanding the nature of aboriginal rights important to the distinction between aboriginal self-government and self-determination? sometimes interchangeable as concepts different self-determination is stronger claim. Self determination: right of self-rule, right to not be governed by another, sovereign nation. Inherent rights approach: cannot reconcile indigenous self-rule with foreign government, aboriginal people never gave up sovereignty therefore they are sovereign nations.