Can the Canadians Be a Sovereign People

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6236313
AutoresPeter H Russell (University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas691-709
Fecha de publicación1991-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000842390000562x
OpenAlexW2158103630
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas23

No country had been engaged in macro-constitutional politics so intensively for so long as Canada. Macro-constitutional politics, unlike ordinary constitutional politics are about the very nature of the political community on which the constitution is to be based. When constitutional politics is at the macro level, the constitutional question tends to dwarf all other issues. Except for a few short intervals Canada has been engaged in constitutional politics since the mid-1960s. Through this experience and most recently. Canadians have adopted a new constitutionalism requiring popular participation in constitution-making. Thus, as Canadians enter the fifth, and what they hope will be, the final round of macro-constitutional politics, they will find out whether they share enough in common to constitute themselves a single sovereign people

Constitution · Constitutional economics · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Systems and Governance