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Constitution-making as intergovernmental relations: a case study of the 1980 Canadian constitutional negotiations

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The Constitution Act, 1982 is a document that profoundly changed the Canadian political landscape. It brought home the highest law of the land; it provided Canadians a mechanism to change their Constitution; it created a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, entrenched within the Constitution, out of the reach of one government. Perhaps its most important legacies, however, are the seemingly permanent isolation of Quebec and the primacy of place in Canadian history it gave Pierre Trudeau. This paper will examine the constitutional history of Canada with a view to determining what made the 1980 negotiating sessions successful when the sessions that led to both the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord were not. It is important, however, to note that the word “successful” is used in the sense that an agreement was reached. Unlike Meech and Charlottetown, the repatriated constitution did not have unanimity among the participants. The question that comes to mind is this: if the governments did not really agree in 1981, why was a Constitution ratified? More importantly, are there lessons that can be drawn from this agreement that can be applied to the failed accords of the Mulroney era? (author's abstract)

Constitution-making as intergovernmental relations: a case study of the 1980 Canadian constitutional negotiations

Urheber*in: McDonald, Adam D.

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ISSN: 1923-6158

Extent: Seite(n): 1-23

Language: Englisch

Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation: Federal Governance, 1(1)

Subject: Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Kanada
Verfassung
Verfassungsgebung
Verfassungsänderung
historische Entwicklung
politische Geschichte
politischer Prozess
politische Verhandlung

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): McDonald, Adam D.

Event: Veröffentlichung

(when): 2004

URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47048-8

Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln

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