Category Archives: Articles

My Latest Book Review in the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law

Posted on 2022/10/21 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law just published my review of Donald F. Bur’s Laws of the Constitution Consolidated, by the University of Alberta Press. Similar Posts: Who Decides What the Constitution Is and Says? Quebec Modifies the Text of the Constitution Act, 1867 (June … Continue reading →

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“Canada’s Legal-Constitutional Continuity, 1791-1867” Published in the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law

Posted on 2021/01/01 by J.W.J. Bowden

  Some of you might be interested; some of you might not. The JPPL published an updated version of the paper that I first presented back in May 2017 at the Université de Montréal’s “Constitution at 150” conference.

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Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Vice-Royalty of Canada

Posted on 2020/12/27 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Dorchester Review has just published my piece detailing how Thomas D’Arcy McGee advocated between 1858 and 1864 establishing a new branch of the Royal House of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha in the Kingdom of Canada, with a separate line of … Continue reading →

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Thomas D’Arcy McGee on Literature as National Identity

Posted on 2020/12/01 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Dorchester Review will soon publish my piece on Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Kingdom of Canada. In anticipation of that article, I would like to share with you the section that I had to cut early on in the … Continue reading →

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My Article in the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law on Electoral Reform

Posted on 2020/09/28 by J.W.J. Bowden

Some of you might be interested; some of you might not.

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