Patriation and its consequences : constitution making in Canada / edited by Lois Harder and Steve Patten
- Published
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Patten, Steve, 1961- and Harder, Lois, 1966-
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- Contents
- Looking back on patriation and its consequences / Lois Harder, Steve Patten -- Constituting constitutions : the patriation moment / Janine Brodie -- Constitutional nationalism : politics, law, and culture on the road to patriation / Eric M. Adams -- The evolution of the Charter / Barry L Strayer -- The rise of spectator constitutionalism, 1967-1981 / P.E. Bryden -- Law, politics, and the Patriation Reference of 1981 / Philip Girard -- The judiciary in Trudeau's constitutional vision : intellectual trajectory and the origins of the Charter / David Schneiderman -- More distress than enchantment : the constitutional negotiations of November 1981 as seen from Quebec / Guy Laforest, Rosalie Readman -- Tracking justice : the Constitution Express to Section 35 and beyond / Louise Mandell, Leslie Hall Pinder -- "28 -- Helluva lot to lose in 27 days": the Ad Hoc Committee and women's constitutional activism in the era of patriation / Marilou McPhedran, Judith Erola, Loren Braul -- Patriation and the law of unintended consequences / Peter Russell -- Canadian federalism since patriation : advancing a federalism of empowerment / Alain-G. Gagnon, Alex Schwartz -- An indigenous constitutional paradox : both monumental achievement and monumental defeat / Kiera Ladner -- The sad but true story of a shrinking equality opportunity structure / Alexandra Dobrowolsky.
- Summary
- Patriation and Its Consequences examines the political events and struggles that resulted in the 1981 agreement to patriate the Canadian constitution and sheds light on the political consequences of this key moment in Canadian history.
- Subject(s)
- Canada. Constitution Act, 1982
- Constitution Act, 1982 (Canada)
- Constitutional history—Canada
- Constitutional amendments—Canada
- Histoire constitutionnelle—Canada
- Constitutions—Amendements—Canada
- LAW—Constitutional
- LAW—Public
- Constitutional amendments
- Constitutional history
- Verfassungsrecht
- Canada—Politics and government—1980-1984
- Canada
- ISBN
- 9780774828635 (pdf)
0774828633
9780774828642 (epub)
0774828641
9780774828628
0774828625
9780774828611 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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