A Formal Analysis of the Amending Formula of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6238639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Marc Kilgour (0000-0001-8810-8937, Wilfrid Laurier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 771-777 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/s0008423900028560 |
| OpenAlex | W2082761219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 4 |
A formal analysis of the amending formula of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982 is presented. It is shown that larger provinces have greater voices in determining constitutional amendments, except that there are two groupings of provinces within which power with respect to constitutional amendments is exactly equal. Further, it is argued that differences in power among the provinces are disproportionately small in comparison to differences in population, so that the amending formula systematically directs greater influence to the individual citizens of smaller provinces
Constitution · Geography · Physics · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Demography · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies
Appendix C
Overcoming Legal Formalism
Rational Choice? Crisis Bargaining Over the Meech Lake Accord
Voting games and constitutional decision
Regionalizing Multilateralism
State power in a multilateral context
A power analysis of linear games with consensus
Empirical Banzhaf indices
The Canadian constitutional amending formula
The Chain Store Paradox and Constitutional Politics in Canada
Constitutional Reform of the Judicial Branch
The Regional Veto Formula and Its Effects on Canada's Constitutional Amendment Process
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2008 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |