Whistling Past the Graveyard: Constitutional Abeyances, Quebec, Adn the Future of Canada

by David M. Thomas

In this volume, David Thomas interprets Canada's ongoing constitutional crisis from a new and unusual perspective. Maintaining that 'constitutions conceal as well as reveal', he explores the notion of constitutional abeyances developed by British scholar Michael Foley. Canada's abeyances-deliberately murky areas of irresolution, unsettlement, and ambiguity-were long buried under the Constitution Act of 1867. This Act avoided clear statements on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019541215X
• ISBN13: 9780195412154
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"