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Article: Managing diversity in eighteenth and nineteenth century Canada: Quebec's constitutional development in light of the scottish experience.
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- Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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We argue that an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms adopted for the management of diversity in eighteenth and nineteenth century Canada can contribute to an better understanding of its constitutional odyssey in the twentieth century, particularly in light of the Scottish experience with the Treaty of Union. The article focuses on two essential moments in the recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness: the Quebec Act of 1774 and the BNA Act of 1867. Quebec's constitutional odyssey is seen through the transformation from an ethnically to a territorially based conception of its identity. Comparative politics, in contrast to political theory, has yet to develop a vocabulary ...
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