Remembering the Monarch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6237401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Benoit, Paul Benoı̂t (Government of Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 575-587 |
| Publication date | 1982-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900059059 |
| OpenAlex | W2123165599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Quee's influence in Canada is waning, as nearly everyone agrees. Yet a majority of Canadians must regret this decline, because opinion polls have shown that for every one Canadian who wants to abolish the monarchy, two want to preserve it. Canadians, it would appear, have resigned themselves to accepting their countr's gradual transformation into a republic, as though it were part of some larger inevitable process.Many of them, for example, continue to support electorally a political party that, since the days of William Lyon Mackenzie King, has had a policy of dissociating Canada from her British imperial past. In 1972, a special joint parliamentary committee formed by the Trudeau government to study the constitution declared that it “preferred a Canadian as Head of State for Canada
Constitution · Economic history · Government (linguistics · Monarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regret · Sociology · State (computer science · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |