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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

The Victoria Charter was a set of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada in 1971. This document represented a failed attempt on the part of...

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

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

against the federal government's desire to amend the constitution but ultimately acceded to its request, Alberta being the last to do so. The British...

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

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...

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

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.'"...

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...

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...

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

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...

the same constitution, does not have supremacy over it. Also, the court noted that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the...

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...

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 constitutional law (French: droit constitutionnel du Canada) is the area of Canadian law relating to the interpretation and application of the...