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

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations
Series Governance series
Governance series (Ottawa, Ont.)
Contents "The blizzard and oz": Canadian influences on the Australian constitution then and now / John Williams -- Sister colonies with separate constitutions: why Australian federationists rejected the Canadian constitution / Helen Irving -- Democratic pluralism: the foundational principle of constitutionalism in Canada / Errol P. Mendes -- "Obnoxious border customs": a catalyst for federation / Jeff Brownrigg -- Planting British legal culture in colonial soil: legal professionalism in the lands of the beaver and kangaroo / W. Wesley Pue -- The wattle and the maple in the garden of the Empire / Angelika Sauer -- Parties long estranged: the initiation of Australian Canadian diplomatic relations, 1935-1940 / Galen Roger Perras -- Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Huntington's "kin-country", thesis and Australian-Canadian relations / kim Richard Nossal -- Canada and Australia: an ocean of difference in threat perception / Desmond Morton -- The great war soldier as "nation builder" in Canada and Australia / Jeffrey Keshen -- The Australian Republic: still captive after all these years / Mark McKenna -- Mateship, mayhem and the Australian Constitution's preamble / David Headon -- Canada's Republican silence / David E. Smith -- Participation of non-party interveners and amici curiae in constitutional cases in Canadian provincial courts: guidance for Australia? / Patrick Keyzer -- Innovations in governance in Canada / Gilles Paquet -- Australian and Canadian film industries: a personal perspective / Judith McCann -- A practitioner's view of comparative governance in Australia and Canada / Greg Wood
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Constitutional history -- Australia -- Congresses
Constitutional history -- Canada -- Congresses
Federal government -- Australia -- Congresses
Federal government -- Canada -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Constitutions.
Constitutional history
Federal government
Politics and government
Natievorming.
Grondwetten.
Koloniale periode.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
Nationale identiteit.
Overheid.
SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Canada -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Subject Australia
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Cardinal, Linda, 1959-
Headon, David John, 1950-
ISBN 9780776616902
0776616900