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Title Shaping nations : constitutionalism and society in Australia and Canada / edited by Linda Cardinal and David Headon
Published Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
regular print
Series Governance series
Governance series.
Contents Foreword / Greg Wood -- Introduction / Linda Cardinal and David Headon -- Pt. I. Constitutionalism. 1. "The Blizzard and Oz": Canadian Influences on the Australian Constitution Then and Now / John Williams. 2. Sister Colonies with Separate Constitutions: Why Australian Federationists Rejected the Canadian Constitution / Helen Irving. 3. Democratic Pluralism: The Foundational Principle of Constitutionalism in Canada / Errol P. Mendes -- Pt. II. Colonialism. 4. "Obnoxious Border Customs": A Catalyst for Federation / Jeff Brownrigg. 5. Planting British Legal Culture in Colonial Soil: Legal Professionalism in the Lands of the Beaver and Kangaroo / W. Wesley Pue. 6. The Wattle and the Maple in the Garden of the Empire / Angelika Sauer -- Pt. III. Relations Between Australia and Canada. 7. Parties Long Estranged: The Initiation of Australian Canadian Diplomatic Relations, 1935-1940 / Galen Roger Perras. 8. Throwing, Out the Baby with the Bathwater? Huntington's "Kin-Country", Thesis and Australian-Canadian Relations / Kim Richard Nossal. 9. Canada and Australia: An Ocean of Difference in Threat Perception / Desmond Morton. 10. The Great War Soldier as "Nation Builder" in Canada and Australia / Jeffrey Keshen -- Pt. IV. Republicanism and National Identity. 11. The Australian Republic: Still Captive After All These Years / Mark McKenna. 12. Mateship, Mayhem and the Australian Constitution's Preamble / David Headon. 13. Canada's Republican Silence / David E. Smith -- Pt. V. Governance. 14. Participation of Non-Party Interveners and Amici Curiae in Constitutional Cases in Canadian Provincial Courts: Guidance for Australia? / Patrick Keyzer. 15. Innovations in Governance in Canada / Gilles Paquet. 16. Australian and Canadian Film Industries: A Personal Perspective / Judith McCann. 17. A Practitioner's View of Comparative Governance in Australian and Canada / Greg Wood
Analysis Constitution
Constitutional law
Canada
Republicanism
National identity
Federalism
Australia overseas comparisons
Notes Governance series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Constitutional history -- Australia -- Congresses.
Constitutional history -- Canada -- Congresses.
Federal government -- Australia -- Congresses.
Federal government -- Canada -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Canada -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019334 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Headon, David John, 1950-
Cardinal, Linda, 1959-
LC no. 2003447577
ISBN 077660533X
0776630202