There have, however, been a number of unsuccessful attempts to amend the Constitution in accordance with its amending formula. On April 18, 1983, Prime Minister...

approximately 11,770 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution. Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around...

modifying the Constitution of Canada primarily meant amending the British North America Act, 1867. Unlike most other constitutions, however, the Act had...

protect property rights. See Unsuccessful attempts to amend the Canadian Constitution for more information. Suresh v Canada Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney...

amendment of the constitution in general significantly more difficult. Previously, the Canadian constitution could be formally amended by an act of the British...

The Canadian Crown and Aboriginal peoples Unsuccessful attempts to amend the Canadian Constitution Canadian sovereignty "The Government of Canada's Approach...

in Canada as a back-formation from repatriation (returning to one's country). Prior to 1982, power to amend the Canadian constitution was held by the Parliament...

the constitution to make it more "Japanese", but these attempts were frustrated for a number of reasons. One was the extreme difficulty of amending it...

The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President...

The rest were renamed the Constitution Acts and amended, with those changes having effect only in Canada. The Canadian versions of the Constitution Acts...

in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights to Canadian citizens...

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The Canada Act 1982, which brought the Constitution of Canada fully under Canadian control, referred only to Canada. Later that year, the name of the...

consensus on a process to amend the constitution; attempts such as the 1965 Fulton–Favreau formula and the 1971 Victoria Charter failed to receive unanimous...

have amended the party's constitution to implement a co-leadership model. However, Pedneault was unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat in the House...

that the negative of the President applying only to the ordinary cases of legislation, he had nothing to do with propositions to amend the Constitution.'"...

to amend the Constitution must be properly adopted and ratified before they change the Constitution. First, there are two procedures for adopting the...

parliament retained the power to amend Canada's constitution at the request of Canada. That authority remained in effect until the Constitution Act, 1982, which...

transferred the authority to amend Canada's constitution to the Parliament of Canada, the final step to achieving full sovereignty. The Statute of Westminster...

and unsuccessful, attempts were made to reform the constitution. A subsequent sovereignty referendum in 1995 – only narrowly lost – shook Canada to its...

Act, 1867, the Act continues to be the foundational statute for the Constitution of Canada, although it has been amended many times since 1867. It is...

Canadian law was amended in 1985. The Canadian government applied gender bias requirements to the legal status of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. First passed...

Charlottetown Accord, a subsequent attempt to amend the Canadian constitution. The Charlottetown agreement was submitted to a national referendum in 1992 and...

included the Constitution Act, 1982 and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and finally established an amending formula for the Canadian Constitution. These...

particular importance in the Canadian constitution due to repeated disputes about the nature of residual federal power in Canada. It is often contrasted...

The Meech Lake Accord (French: Accord du lac Meech) was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister...

W. "Constitutional Law -- Federal Power to Amend the Constitution of Canada -- Reform of the Senate". Canadian Bar Review. 58 (3): 635. St-Hilaire, Maxime...

Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn...

The Manitoba Act, 1870 (French: Loi de 1870 sur le Manitoba) is an act of the Parliament of Canada, and part of the Constitution of Canada, that provided...

government. The Constitution Act, 1867, which established a federal constitution for Canada, enumerated in Sections 91 and 92 the topics on which the Dominion...