Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents viii
3. Acknowledgments x
4. Contributors xii
5. Introduction: The Myth of the Sacred in the Canadian Constitutional Order 3
6. Judicial Review and Group Status
7. Judicial Rationalism and the Therapeutic Constitution: The Supreme Court’s Reconstruction of Equality and Democratic Process under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms¹ 17
8. Judicial Supervision of the Political Process: Canadian and American Responses to Homosexual Rights Challenges 67
9. The Supreme Court of Canada and the Complexity of Judicial Activism 97
10. The Constitution and Rational Choice Theory
11. Canada’s Three Constitutions: Protecting, Overturning, and Reversing the Status Quo 125
12. Strategic Behaviour and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 147
13. Non-Governmental Players in the Constitutional Arena
14. Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Constitutional Politics in Canada 171
15. Cooperation and Conflict: Group Activity in R. v. Keegstra 189
16. The Culture of Constitution-Making in Canada
17. Deeper and Deeper: Deep Diversity, Federalism and Redistributive Politics in Canada 207
18. Is a “True” Multination Federation the Cure for Our Ills? 219
19. Bibliography 239