Includes bibliographical references.

1.- Institutions-- 2.- Federalism-- 3.- Intergovernmental relations-- 4.-The judiciary-- 5.- Bilingualism and binationalism-- 6.- The charter-- 7.- Minority rights and contitutional renewal.

The constitution / Robert MacGregor Dawson -- The pattern of the constitution / James Mallory -- Responsive and responsible government / James Mallory -- The question of confidence in responsible government / Eugene Forsey and G.C. Eglington -- The Canadian senate : what is to be done? / David E. Smith -- The federative superstructure / Ronald L. Watts -- A short history of the Constitution / George Stanley -- The historical framework of the Maritimes and the problems of Confederation / George Rawlyk -- Confederation and Quebec / A.I. Silver -- The division of economic powers at Confederation / Donald Creighton -- Confederation and the beginnings of Canadian federalist theory / Samuel LaSelva -- The Rowell-Sirois Report : an abridgement of Book 1 of the Royal Commission Report on Dominion-Provincial Relations / Donald Smiley -- The social and institution context of Federal-Provincial diplomacy / Richard Simeon -- Provincial rights / Peter H. Russell -- The Mowat heritage in Federal-Provincial relations / Christopher Armstrong -- The Supreme Court and Federal-Provincial relations : the political use of legal resources / Peter H. Russell -- The origins of judicial review in Canada / Jennifer Smith -- The judicial committee and its critics / Alan Cairns -- The Watson era, 1889-1912 / John Saywell -- Some Privy Counsel / Frank R. Scott -- The living Canadian constitution / Alan C. Cairns -- The independence of the judiciary / William Lederman -- Is the Supreme Court of Canada biased in Constitutional cases? / Peter Hogg -- Manitoba schools and the rise of bilingualism / A.I. Silver -- Laurier : a study in Canadian politics / J.W. Dafoe -- The meaning of provincial autonomy / Louis-Philippe Pigeon -- Quebec and Canadian Federalism / Alexander Brady -- Quebec and the Constitutional problem / Pierre Elliott Trudeau -- Lord Durham, French Canada and Quebec : remembering the past, debating the future / Guy Laforest -- Reflections on the political purposes of the charter / Alan C. Cairns -- On not standing for notwithstanding / John Whyte -- Standing up for notwithstanding / Peter H. Russell -- Left and right wing charterphobia in Canada : a critique of the critics / Richard Sigurdson -- Western Canadian perspectives on institutional reform : introduction and context / Roger Gibbins and Loleen Berdahl -- The holy grail : provincial status / Gordon Robertson -- The Constitutional Act, 1982 : an unfinished compromise / Gil Remillard -- Three centuries of Constitution making in Canada : will there be a fourth? / Roderick A. Macdonald -- Constitutional theory and the Quebec secession reference / Sujit Choudhry and Robert Howse -- Recovering Canada : the resurgence of Indigenous law / John Borrows -- Making sense of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights / Brian Slattery -- Canada : a pioneer in the management of Constitutional politics in an multi-national society / Peter H. Russell.