Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Tragedy, Justice, and Community as Elements of Canadian Federalism 1
5. Federalism as a Way of Life: The Canadian Experiment 17
6. Confederation and the Beginnings of Canadian Federalist Theory 31
7. Patriation Revisited: The Neglected Implications of Section 94 49
8. Does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Rest on a Mistake? 64
9. Nation-Saving or Nation-Destroying: The Impact of the Charter of Rights on Canadian Federalism 81
10. Reimagining Confederation: Moving Beyond the Trudeau-Lévesque Debate 99
11. Is Canadian Democracy Special? Mutual Recognition in a Federal System 119
12. A Dialogue of Democracy: Aboriginal Self-Government and Canadian Federalism 137
13. The One and the Many: Pluralism, Expressivism, and the Canadian Political Nationality 155
14. Recovering the Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism 171
15. Notes 197
16. Bibliography 229
17. Index 251