Includes bibliographical references and index.

Should we cheer? Contested constitutionalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / James B. Kelly and Christopher P. Manfredi -- Legalise this : the Chartering of Canadian politics / Andrew Petter -- Rationalizing judicial power : the mischief of dialogue theory / Grant Huscroft -- Courting controversy : strategic judicial decision making / Rainer Knopff, Dennis Baker, and Sylvia LeRoy -- Legislative activism and parliamentary bill of rights : institutional lessons for Canada / James B. Kelly -- Compromise and the notwithstanding clause : why the dominant narrative distorts our understanding / Janet L. Hiebert -- Judicializing health policy : unexpected lessons and an inconvenient truth / Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni -- National security and the Charter / Kent Roach -- Canadian language rights : liberties, claims, and the national conversation / Graham Fraser -- Explaining the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions : official minority language education rights outside Quebec / Troy Riddell -- Reference re same-sex marriage : making sense of the government's litigation strategy / Matthew Hennigar -- Bills of rights as instruments of nation building in multinational states : the Canadian Charter and Quebec nationalism / Sujit Choudhry -- The internal exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter / Guy Laforest -- The road not taken : aboriginal rights after the re-imaging of the Canadian constitutional order / Kiera L. Ladner and Michael McCrossan -- The Charter and Canadian democracy / Peter H. Russell.

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