Contested Constitutionalism
Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Contested Constitutionalism
Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Should We Cheer? Contested Constitutionalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / James B. Kelly and Christopher P. Manfredi
Part 1: Governance and Institutions
2 Legalise This: The Chartering of Canadian Politics / Andrew Petter
3 Rationalizing Judicial Power: The Mischief of Dialogue Theory / Grant Huscroft
4 Courting Controversy: Strategic Judicial Decision Making / Rainer Knopff, Dennis Baker, and Sylvia LeRoy
5 Legislative Activism and Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Institutional Lessons for Canada / James B. Kelly
6 Compromise and the Notwithstanding Clause: Why the Dominant Narrative Distorts Our Understanding / Janet L. Hiebert
Part 2: Policy Making and the Courts
7 Judicializing Health Policy: Unexpected Lessons and an Inconvenient Truth / Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni
8 National Security and the Charter / Kent Roach
9 Canadian Language Rights: Liberties, Claims, and the National Conversation / Graham Fraser
10 Explaining the Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions: Official Minority Language Education Rights outside Quebec / Troy Riddell
11 Reference re Same-Sex Marriage: Making Sense of the Government’s Litigation Strategy / Matthew Hennigar
Part 3: Citizenship and Identity
12 Bills of Rights as Instruments of Nation Building in Multinational States: The Canadian Charter and Quebec Nationalism / Sujit Choudhry
13 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter / Guy Laforest
14 The Road Not Taken: Aboriginal Rights after the Re-Imagining of the Canadian Constitutional Order / Kiera L. Ladner and Michael McCrossan
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