| Reference Re Resolution To Amend The Constitution |
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| 1981 in law | |
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The Court affirmed the existence of an unwritten dimension to the Constitution and the majority held that by Constitutional Convention , amendments to the Constitution require a substantial degree of provincial consent. However, a differently-constituted majority of the court held that there was no ''legal'' barrier to the federal government seeking a constitutional amendment without any provincial consent. AFTERMATH The decision was unique at the time as it was the first to be televised live on national television. The decision has a broader significance to all Common Law jurisdictions as it is authority for the proposition that a convention cannot, even through long and rigorous usage, "crystallise" into Law . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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