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Constitutional Odyssey - Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Constitutional Odyssey - Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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"Constitutional Odyssey" is an account of the politics of making
and changing Canada's constitution from Confederation to the
present day. Peter H. Russell frames his analysis around two
contrasting constitutional philosophies - Edmund Burke's conception
of the constitution as a set of laws and practices incrementally
adapting to changing needs and societal differences, and John
Locke's ideal of a Constitution as a single document expressing the
will of a sovereign people as to how they are to be governed.The
first and second editions of "Constitutional Odyssey," published in
1992 and 1993 respectively, received wide-ranging praise for their
ability to inform the public debate. This third edition continues
in that tradition. Russell adds a new preface, and a new chapter on
constitutional politics since the defeat of the Charlottetown
Accord in 1993. He also looks at the 1995 Quebec Referendum and its
fallout, the federal Clarity Act, Quebec's Self-Determination Act,
the Agreement on Internal Trade, the Social Union Framework
Agreement and the Council of the Federation, progress in Aboriginal
self-determination such as Nunavut and the Nisga'a Agreement, and
the movement to reduce the democratic deficit in parliamentary
government.Comprehensive and eminently readable, "Constitutional
Odyssey" is as important as ever.
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