Part 1: Introduction: The Significance of Constitution Making

1 Looking Back on Patriation and Its Consequences / Lois Harder and Steve Patten

2 Constituting Constitutions: The Patriation Moment / Janine Brodie

Part 2: Tracing the Long Road to Patriation

3 Constitutional Nationalism: Politics, Law, and Culture on the Road to Patriation / Eric M. Adams

4 The Evolution of the Charter / Barry L. Strayer

5 The Rise of Spectator Constitutionalism, 1967-81 / P.E. Bryden

Part 3: Shaping Patriation: Law, Political Vision, Political Actors, and Political Struggle

6 Law, Politics, and the Patriation Reference of 1981 / Philip Girard

7 The Judiciary in Trudeau’s Constitutional Vision: Intellectual Trajectory and Origins of the Charter / David Schneiderman

8 More Distress than Enchantment: The Constitutional Negotiations of November 1981 Seen from Quebec / Guy Laforest and Rosalie Readman

9 Tracking Justice: The Constitution Express to Section 35 and Beyond / Louise Mandell and Leslie Hall Pinder

10 “28 – Helluva Lot to Lose in 27 Days”: The Ad Hoc Committee and Women’s Constitutional Activism in the Era of Patriation / Marilou McPhedran, Judith Erola, and Loren Braul

Part 4: The Political and Constitutional Consequences of Patriation

11 Patriation and the Law of Unintended Consequences / Peter Russell

12 Canadian Federalism since Patriation: Advancing a Federalism of Empowerment / Alain-G. Gagnon and Alex Schwartz

13 An Indigenous Constitutional Paradox: Both Monumental Achievement and Monumental Defeat / Kiera Ladner

14 The Sad but True Story of a Shrinking Equality Opportunity Structure / Alexandra Dobrowolsky

List of Contributors; Index