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End run to an Americanized Senate
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
May 1, 2010
…Mr. Harper’s recurring legislation is a clear attempt to circumvent the Constitution in the service of a radical change to the distribution, structure and dynamics of political power. Following on the legal principle that a government cannot do through a second channel what the Constitution prevents it from doing through the first, you would think such a manoeuvre would be widely dissed and dismissed as ultra vires. But it has not been so in the legal community… Nor has this initiative been clearly examined for its significance in our media…
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