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Shaping nations : constitutionalism and society in Australia and Canada / edited by Linda Cardinal and David Headon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Governance series ; 4.
- Governance series ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--Australia--Congresses.
- Constitutional history.
- Constitutional history--Canada--Congresses.
- Federal government--Australia--Congresses.
- Federal government.
- Federal government--Canada--Congresses.
- Australia--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Australia.
- Canada--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As questions concerning nationhood and national identity continue to preoccupy both Canada and Australia, Shaping Nations brings together the work of Australian and Canadian scholars around five core themes: constitutionalism, colonialism, republicanism, national identity, and governance.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Contributors; Foreword: His Excellency Greg Wood, Australian High Commissioner to Canada; Introduction: Linda Cardinal and David Headon; Part I: Constitutionalism; 1. ""The Blizzard and Oz"": Canadian Influences on the Australian Constitution Then and Now; 2. Sister Colonies with Separate Constitutions: Why Australian Federationists Rejected the Canadian Constitution; 3. Democratic Pluralism: The Foundational Principle of Constitutionalism in Canada; Part II: Colonialism; 4. ""Obnoxious Border Customs"": A Catalyst for Federation
- 5. Planting British Legal Culture in Colonial Soil: Legal Professionalism in the Lands of the Beaver and Kangaroo6. The Wattle and the Maple in the Garden of the Empire; Part III: Relations Between Australia and Canada; 7. Parties Long Estranged: The Initiation of Australian Canadian Diplomatic Relations, 1935-1940; 8. Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? Huntington's ""Kin-Country"", Thesis and Australian-Canadian Relations; 9. Canada and Australia: An Ocean of Difference in Threat Perception; 10. The Great War Soldier as ""Nation Builder"" in Canada and Australia
- Part IV: Republicanism and National Identity11. The Australian Republic: Still Captive After All These Years; 12. Mateship, Mayhem and the Australian Constitution's Preamble; 13. Canada's Republican Silence; Part V: Governance; 14. Participation of Non-Party Interveners and Amici Curiae in Constitutional Cases in Canadian Provincial Courts: Guidance for Australia?; 15. Innovations in Governance in Canada; 16. Australian and Canadian Film Industries: A Personal Perspective; 17. A Practitioner's View of Comparative Governance in Australia and Canada
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780776616902
- 0776616900
- OCLC:
- 742332940
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